Silpa-archa Family Donates 92 Rai of Land for New Suphan Buri Hospital

Vajara P.Published: August 21, 2026, 10:33 AM

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Silpa-archa Family Donates 92 Rai of Land for New Suphan Buri Hospital | Thaiger

Thailand’s Silpa-archa family has donated 92 rai of land to Chao Phraya Yommarat Hospital in Suphan Buri. The land is worth more than 150 million baht. The family is a political dynasty spanning decades in the province. The donation clears the way for a second hospital campus and a new rehabilitation and elderly care centre.

Industry Minister Varawut Silpa-archa handed over the land on August 20. His wife Suwanna and other family members joined him at a ceremony at Suan Dusit University’s Suphan Buri campus. Public Health Minister Pattana Promphat presided over the handover. Bhumjaithai MPs for Suphan Buri and senior health ministry officials also attended.

Varawut said the hospital has grown increasingly crowded. More patients from Suphan Buri and neighbouring provinces are seeking treatment there. He said he had long wanted to donate land to ease the pressure. The family has several hundred rai more available, he said, if the new site still isn’t enough.

Of the donated land, just over 29 rai will support Thai traditional medicine services. A strip roughly 40 metres wide and nearly 400 metres long will become a four-lane road connecting the site. It will be built without a central median, to cut long-term maintenance costs.

Land deed document for the 92-rai plot donated to Chao Phraya Yommarat Hospital in Suphan Buri

The site sits next to Suan Dusit University. Officials say that could open the door to future collaboration. Planning documents for the project include space for a helicopter landing pad. Varawut said the province would welcome it if the Public Health Ministry eventually funds a helicopter for the site.

The planned second campus includes a five-storey outpatient building and a five-storey critical and inpatient care building. It also includes a six-storey elderly care building and staff housing. Other infrastructure includes water and wastewater systems, a 350-car parking area, and a 1.1-kilometre perimeter fence.

Varawut linked the donation to his father, former Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-archa. Banharn championed public health funding in Suphan Buri for years. Varawut recalled that his father once donated 40 rai of what would have been his own inheritance, for a sports centre for people with disabilities. He said he has now told his three children they will do the same, before eventually buying new land of their own.

After the handover ceremony, Varawut joined Pattana for the kickoff of Suphan Buri’s community nursing volunteer programme. He met with health workers and village health volunteers. He then visited the site where the new hospital campus will be built.

Officials and health workers at the kickoff of the Suphan Buri community nursing volunteer programme