In addition to providing medical services to the general public, it is also one of the two main facilities for training students of the faculty.

This is to increase the number of healthcare services provided for local residents, as most citizens in the area work in the secondary sector in factories and industrial plants.

Furthermore, the majority of hospitals located in Samut Prakan are of the private sector, unaffordable to those with lower income.

[1] With regards to the faculty, the increased numbers of patients and the extremely limited space of Ramathibodi Hospital in central Bangkok meant expansion was very difficult.

Patients were transferred here for medical care from the main Ramathibodi Hospital site in central Bangkok.