Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health () is large public hospital located in

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. It serves as a teaching hospital for the

College of Medicine, Rangsit University The College of Medicine, Rangsit University () is the first private medical school and the ninth oldest medical school in Thailand. History The Faculty of Medicine, Rangsit College was founded on 1 May 1989, following a successful proposal to the ...

History

With plans to expand the

pediatrics Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until th ...

department of the Women's Hospital (now

Rajavithi Hospital Rajavithi Hospital () is large public hospital located in Ratchathewi District, Bangkok, Thailand. It was founded in 1951 as the Women's Hospital, and is operated by the Ministry of Public Health's Department of Medical Services. With an inpatie ...

), the cabinet of

Plaek Phibunsongkhram Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram ( th, แปลก พิบูลสงคราม ; alternatively transcribed as ''Pibulsongkram'' or ''Pibulsonggram''; 14 July 1897 – 11 June 1964), locally known as Marshal P. ( th, จอมพล � ...

approved the construction of a pediatrics building with a capacity of 137 beds on Ratchawithi Road, which was to be operated by the Women's Hospital. The opening ceremony took place on 24 June 1954. By a 1973

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of civil service management, operations were transferred to the Department of Medical Services of the Ministry of Public Health on 3 December 1974 and the building became the Children's Hospital. In 1996, the name was changed to Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health in commemoration of the

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. The institute was the first medical institution to offer a pediatrics training program that was not led under the University of Medical Sciences (now

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), and it's setup was aided by the

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and

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. Rajavithi Hospital started providing medical education for students of the College of Medicine, Rangsit University since 1 June 1992. Students in this group also study at Rajavithi Hospital as a teaching hospital.

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