Chao Jiramongkol (center)
and family, along with Chonburi Permanent Secretary Chaowalit
Saeng-Uthai (2nd from right), cut the ribbon to open the new Chao
Jiramongkol building at Banglamung Hospital.
Warunya Thongrod
Banglamung Hospital opened its seventh building, a 36 million baht
facility named after its largest benefactor for the past decade.
Thumrong Sombuntanont, public health supervisor of 6th Health Services
Network, presided over the Aug. 8 dedication of the Chao Jiramongkol
Building at the Naklua Market-area hospital. Nine local monks blessed
the new facility as Banglamung Permanent Secretary Chawalit Saeng-Uthai
and Chao Jiramongkol cut the ribbon.
Although built with government money, the new
building was named after Chao because of the Pattaya businessman’s
strong financial backing of hospital since 2003.
Among his many gifts were 900,000 baht in medical equipment, land in
front of the hotel, an infant incubator, cash to poor patients and his
work in raising money’s for the hospital’s 80th Anniversary Building.
At the ceremony, Chao extended his record of generosity, donating 3.36
million baht for 28 nursing-school scholarships.
The Chao Jiramongkol Building is spread over five rai and rises five
floors. It’s the seventh building on the hospital campus, which started
as a single structure in 1938 at the Old Naklua Market. It cares for 250
inpatients and 1,200 outpatients a day.
