Achariya Sanrattana
Senior Manager of Investor Relations & Sustainability
Welcome to the analyst presentation for the first quarter of 2026 from Bumrungrad Hospital Public Company Limited. My name is Achariya Sanrattana, Investor Relations & Sustainability.
For the first quarter, we will have the Analyst Meeting in an online format. We will upload this prerecording of the webcast for the analyst presentation on our website and our page and then later on, we will have the live Q&A sessions, live streaming for our analysts and fund managers.
For the presenter today, we have Khun Neil Sorrentino, Corporate Chief Strategy Officer, talk about the 1Q 2026 BHPCL Performance summary. Then we have Khun Artirat Charukitpipat, Chief Executive Officer, to talk about the business update. Then we have Khun Oraphan Buamuang, Chief Financial Officer, to give us an update on the financial highlights and the performance. Then we have Khun Rajeev Rajan, Chief Business Development Officer, to update us on the business development side.
Neil Sorrentino
Corporate Chief Strategy Officer
Good morning, and welcome to Q1 2026 performance summary for Bumrungrad Hospital Public Company Limited. The quarter was an interestingly strange one in that 100% of Ramadan occurred in the quarter. But despite that, our performance from the Middle East was unusually strong. Part of that was due to slow incoming Middle Eastern patients. But the other part of it was that homeward-bound Middle Eastern patients were not able to get back into their country because of the war impact ongoing between Iran and the United States. So we
