CHON BURI, March 18 (TNA) – The management of Thammasat University plans to invest 500 million baht in the first phase of its Senior Complex to take care of elderly people at its Pattaya campus.
Thammasat University rector Gasinee Witoonchart said the Senior Complex, also known as Lakside Premier Complex, would be part of a medical hub to be developed on a 566-rai land plot of the Pattaya campus in Bang Lamung district of Chon Buri and the medical hub was under the government’s Eastern Economic Corridor scheme.
Mrs Gasinee said that the plan of the Senior Complex was completed and on March 18 the university would sign a memorandum of understanding with its potential financier, Government Housing Bank, that would conduct a feasibility study on the finance of the 500-million-baht first phase of the Senior complex.
Initially there will be three residential buildings, with three floors each and 150 rooms covering 50-60 square meters each. There will also be treatment and therapy clinics for elderly people and an anti-ageing center.
Supawat Chatchawal, deputy rector of Thammasat University, said the Senior Complex project would receive warm welcome because of the university’s medical and innovative resources.
The National Economic and Social Development Board predicted people with 60 years of age and over would form 20% of the Thai population in two years. (TNA)
