Rank #1195
Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth
Net worth $3.6B
Hospitals, airline · Thailand
- Born
- Mar 26, 1933
- Age
- 93
- Source
- Hospitals, airline
- Residence
- Bangkok
- Citizenship
- Thailand
- Marital status
- Children
- 5
- Education
- Medical Doctor, Mahidol University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Former surgeon Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth cofounded Bangkok Dusit Medical Services in 1972. It is Thailand's largest private hospital operator.
- Bangkok Dusit has a $370 million luxury healthcare complex in Bangkok that includes a 211-room Movenpick wellness resort.
- Bangkok Dusit has 58 hospitals, including a cancer hospital in Bangkok that opened in 2023.
- Prasert also owns and runs regional airline, Bangkok Airways, which he took public in 2014.
- His daughter, Poramaporn, is the president of Bangkok Dusit. His son, Puttipong, has a board seat.
- PPTV, his digital TV channel, has the rights to broadcast matches of the English Premier League.
- Prasert comes from an old Bangkok family that was engaged in making and selling traditional medicines.
- In 2020, Bangkok Dusit dropped its plan to acquire listed rival Bumrungrad International Hospital and eventually sold all its shares.
Financial assets
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