The Hospital for Tropical Diseases is a university hospital under the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University. Our faculty is a tropical medicine institute that has operated since 1961. From the beginning, we aim to be a specialized institute focusing in studying diseases mainly in the tropics making it the only faculty of its kind in Thailand. Each year we published numerous research articles in international journals. Moreover, the faculty operates the Hospital for Tropical Diseases which provide specialized medical care for Thai and foreigners mainly in tropical diseases, infectious diseases and varios diseases in Internal Medicien speciality.
Our hospital specializes in providing services that treat tropical diseases, including malaria, parasitic diseases, liver diseases, and bacterial, viral, and fungal infectious diseases. Our fever clinic operated 24 hours a day which could offers 24-hour malaria lab examination. Our specialized clinics include the Travel Medicine Clinic (Thai Travel Clinic), Gastrointestinal Clinic, Dermatology Clinic, Parasite Clinic, Liver Disease Clinic, Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic (acupuncture), and Traditional Thai Medicine Clinic.
However, because The Hospital for Tropical Diseases is a specialized hospital, there is no surgical department, obstetrics and gynecology department, or emergency department in our hospital.