The Cabinet yesterday approved a plan to set up a 400-bed medical facility in Samut Prakan's Bang Phli district.
The construction will cost about Bt6 billion, half of which will be paid by the government. The Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital will shoulder the remaining cost.
"The plan will boost the Ramathibodi Hospital's capacity," Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat said.
Designed to honour His Majesty the King's 84th birthday anniversary, the plan will see the start of construction of the new medical facility next year.
Prof Dr Rajata Rajatanavin, dean of the Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, said his institute had planned to develop a medical centre in Bang Phli district to accommodate the medical needs of people in this industrial zone as well as in nearby provinces.
The new medical centre will be constructed over 292 rai of land.