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July 2004
PM’s Export Promotion Award 2004
Three hospitals, Bangkok Phuket Hospital, Samitivej Hospital Sukhumvit and the BNH hospital has been awarded the "prime minister’s export promotion award 2004" as a service provider to the international market.
Streaming VDO on our web site
Our web site has a 7 minutes presentation VDO and also a news report from CNN about holiday surgery.
You can look at these two movies directly from the web site. We have 2 different versions. One version is for modem users and one for broadband users. Just go to our web site and click on “Look at movie”
Massage at the Hospital
The purpose of Thai massage is to bring the body, mind, and spirit into a state of balance and harmony, providing an opportunity for self-healing.
Bangkok Phuket Hospital can offer you a real Thai Ayurvedic massage from well trained professional staff. You might have experienced different quality of massage in Thailand. Some who offer massage are not properly trained and can even result in injuries.
Massage at the hospital costs only 340 THB for one hour body massage.
Contact us at Phuket Health & Travel by email or phone for an appointment. You can also walk in and visit us on the second floor weekdays between 9AM-4PM.
High Fever for 1-3 Days
Dengue Fever (pronounced 'Dhen Gey') is a viral infection common throughout the tropical regions of the world. It is spread by the day-biting Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes.
Dengue has a short incubation period - often days, usually less than a week. The signs and symptoms of dengue include a sudden, rapidly climbing fever, a severe headache, nausea & vomiting, loss of appetite, rash and deep muscle and joint pains. The disease is nicknamed 'break bone fever' for these last two symptoms. The rash usually shows up 3-4 days after the start of the symptoms and begins on the torso, spreading out to the face, arms and legs.
With High technology Bangkok Phuket Hospital can detect Dengue virus by PCR within (Polymerase Chain Reaction) within 24 hours.
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A new 350-bed wing at the hospital (Phuket Gazette)
PHUKET: Bangkok Dusit Medical Service Plc, better known by its stock market moniker BGH, is to buy 51% of shares in the privately-owned Bangkok Phuket Hospital (BPK), giving it 100% ownership of the medical facility.
The move is part of a grand strategy – BGH is also buying out the remaining 67% of shares in affiliate Samitivej Plc and the 32% of shares in Bangkok Hat Yai Hospital that it doesn't already own. Once completed, these deals will make BGH Thailand’s largest operator of private hospitals.
No money will change hands; the takeovers will be achieved through share swaps. Dr Surapong Lookhanumanchao, Managing Director of BPK, explained that, in order to facilitate the BPK buyout, BGH has offered to swap 1.48 BPK shares for one BGH share.
Although the BPK takeover must be approved at a shareholder’s meeting to be held in early August, Dr Surapong said, “All the private shareholders have agreed to the takeover because they will benefit from the share swap.”
He added that the buyouts will strengthen BGH’s dominant position in the Thai health care market. “BGH holds 12%-15% of the national health care market and will buy out the remaining shares of the Samitivej Hospital Group, which owns two hospitals in Bangkok – in Sukhumvit and in Srinakarin – and a third in Sri Racha in Chon Buri [province].”
Piyanoot Hongsyok, a member of BPK’s board of directors and of the board of Anuphas & Sons Co Ltd, which owns 15% of the BPK, yesterday confirmed that she agreed with the deal. She told the Gazette, “It’s good news for shareholders. It will [also] greatly benefit customers as it will improve BPK’s standards,” she said.
BGH and the other shareholders have also injected 100 million baht into BPK in a capital call that closed today. Dr Surapong explained that the cash injection will be used to build a new 350-bed wing at the hospital which will also have facilities to treat up to 1,000 outpatients a day.
Dr Surapong said that he expected the buyout to be complete by November. The hospital will continue to be known as the Bangkok Phuket Hospital. “Our management team will still be the same, but after the takeover BGH management and consultants will coordinate with us closely in matters of treatment, research and development, and technology,” he said.
Dr Surapong added that the BPK’s growth was on par with BGH’s. “In the first quarter of this year, revenue from each BGH hospital has grown by 30%. After merging with [Samitivej], we expect 7-8 billion baht revenue a year. In five years, we expect about 20 billion baht revenue [a year].
“Last year the Bangkok Phuket Hospital had total revenue of 500 million baht. During the first half of this year, its revenue has grown by 30%, so we expect revenue of about 670 million baht by the end of this year,” he said.
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