Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra Hospital () is the main hospital of

Narathiwat Province Narathiwat ( th, นราธิวาส, Malay: Menara) is one of the southern provinces (''changwat'') of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are (from west clockwise) Yala and Pattani. To the south it borders the Malaysian state of Kelantan a ...

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and is classified under the Ministry of Public Health as a general hospital. It has a CPIRD Medical Education Center which trains doctors for the

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Princess of Naradhiwas University Princess of Naradhiwas University (PNU) is a government sponsored university in Narathiwat, southern Thailand. It was founded under the act on 9 February 2005 by merging all educational institutions in the province. Those institutions are Narath ...

History

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Taweewong Thawansak, then governor of Narathiwat Province, saw that Narathiwat being a province in the far south of Thailand, did not receive satisfactory healthcare as other provinces in the country. He cooperated with Luang Charoon Burakij, his successor as governor in building a two-storey building named "Taweecharoon" which acted as a health station and opened on 24 June 1941, with two full-time doctors working. Over time, the health station was expanded in 1952 and became a hospital, named Narathiwat Hospital and its first hospital director was Dr. Sem Pringpuangkaeo, former director of the Women's Hospital (now

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). Under the National Social and Economic Development Plan, the hospital became classified as a general hospital. On 28 February 1997, the hospital was renamed "Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra Hospital" ''(Princess of Naradhiwas Hospital)'', after

King Bhumibol Adulyadej Bhumibol Adulyadej ( th, ภูมิพลอดุลยเดช; ; ; (Sanskrit: ''bhūmi·bala atulya·teja'' - "might of the land, unparalleled brilliance"); 5 December 192713 October 2016), conferred with the title King Bhumibol the Great ...

bestowed the royal title of the Princess of Naradhiwas to his majesty's sister,

Princess Galyani Vadhana Galyani Vadhana, Princess of Naradhiwas ( th, กัลยาณิวัฒนา; ; 6 May 1923 – 2 January 2008) was a princess of Thailand and the elder sister of King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) and King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX). She w ...

in 1995.

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