I Have A Farang Friend He Wants A TBC Test Where And How Much He Have No Insurance

[jeanpierre]

can any one help he wants to now where and how much it will cost no insuranance

[jeanpierre]

sorry pattaya

 

[watcharacters]

 

 

Starting a family without  health insurance and no "fall back on" funds?

[jeanpierre]

thats what it is !! if he wants to return europ i can buy ticket for him,but hospital no way

 

[watcharacters]

 

Your "falang friend" may want to learn a little about Jaundice from this article:

 

https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/jaundice/facts.html

 

It serves all well  to know after the fact it's  a little late to check into the cost of anything.     After a service is rendered it's hard to justify an argument as to the cost of the service or product, exceptions notwithstanding!

[jeanpierre]

7 minutes ago, watcharacters said:

 

Your "falang friend" may want to learn a little about Jaundice from this article:

 

https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/jaundice/facts.html

 

It serves all well  to know after the fact it's  a little late to check into the cost of anything.     After a service is rendered it's hard to justify an argument as to the cost of the service or product, exceptions notwithstanding!

jaundice is not tbc lungs are no liver

 

[tomwct]

What's a TBC Test?

[jeanpierre]

tuberculose he have been ?? expossed in isaan ? mostly lungs are affectted

[jeanpierre]

 

 

 

 

 

 

16/5000

 

Bedoelde u: longtuberculose

 

lung tuberculosis

 

 

 

16/5000

 

Bedoelde u: longtuberculose

 

lung tuberculosis

[KhunBENQ]

Can't help with cost in Thailand.

Just seen that there are home/selftest sets in Germany for 20 to 40 Euro.

I would be surprised if a public hospital in Thailand would charge more.

 

Maybe someone with medical expertise can tell what these selftest sets are worth?

 

[jeanpierre]

soi bukauw or banglamung sirikit satahip?

[KhunBENQ]

42 minutes ago, tomwct said:

What's a TBC Test?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis

 

Tuberculosis, "TB".

Still very widespread in this part of the world, but also in eastern Europe, Russia etc.

 

[jeanpierre]

i alway's go bkk hospital but i have insurance

[KhunBENQ]

12 minutes ago, jeanpierre said:

soi bukauw or banglamung sirikit satahip?

Yes, for a start he could just ask at one of the clinics on Soi Buakhao.

If they can't do it, they might direct him.

I can't give advice on the medical implications (contagious or not? treatment?).

All I know is that treatment is a very long lasting chemical therapy.

Very persistent disease.

 

Years ago some Thai people in Germany were diagnosed with TB.

My wife was sitting with them from time to time.

So we both(!) were summoned(!) to a state health office for testing.

Fortunately negative.

 

[KhunBENQ]

12 minutes ago, jeanpierre said:

i alway's go bkk hospital but i have insurance

That's were he should NOT go.

Anyway they will show him the door quickly if he is not insured and has no funds.

 

Another spot to go and ask is the quite new Pattaya City Hospital on Soi Buakhao (close to Soi 15).

[Preacher]

An x-ray of the longs will cost about 250 baht at a government hospital. Don't know the cost of a mantoux test, but a bloodtest should also not be much more than a few hundred baht.

 

The mantoux test or the bloodtest are normally the recommended ways, but believe the x-ray is the way they often do it in Thailand. (maybe cheaper?)

[KhunBENQ]

Bickering post and reply removed.

[tomwct]

No money! No Insurance! He needs to go home and return when he's 60! Hopefully he'll have a pension!

Please someone give him a one way ticket to his home!

[Sheryl]

There is no one single  test for TB.  skin testing (Mantoux) can show whether he has been infected with the TB bacillus (which does not necessarily mean he has TB, most infected people's bodies are able to contain the bacillus without developing TB - so much so that the skin test is not useful in populations with high incidence of Tb because almost everyone will be positive. But for people from Western countries, it has some utility.)

 

Chest Xray will show if there is active pulmonary TB. Test on a deep sputum specimen will show if there are TB bacilli present. Various other tests exist specific to Tb in other body organs.

 

He needs to be seen by a physician first to determine, based on his symptoms (assuming he is symptomatic), what type of tests would be most useful. It might be only a physical exam and a skin test, or an Xray plus sputum test, or a skin test fisrst and then xray/sputum test if positive etc

 

If he is symptomatic then even if (as is likely) TB is ruled out, need to diagnose what else is wrong and treat accordingly.  A lot of influenza going round right now so that is a possibility.

 

The least expensive treatment option would be Pattaya city government hospital. Depending on what tests are considered necessary, likely cost will be anywhere from around 100 to 500 baht. I do not recommend going to a private clinic for this.

[NancyL]

I've assisted a couple of elderly westerners in Chiang Mai where it was suspected that they had TB.  In both cases, they were being treated at Suan Dok Hospital, the teaching hospital for CMU.  In both cases, they were rather frail and the exact cause of their problem wasn't known.  They were put into very special isolation rooms and their sputum was collected and analyzed over several days.  This was after they'd "failed" physical exam, skin test and chest x-rays.  

 

In one case, the man did test positive for TB, but since he was also HIV positive, this wasn't unusual.  In the second case, the TB diagnosis was negative and the cause of his symptoms were  not diagnosed,  because he didn't have funds to proceed with more tests.  However,  he gained enough strength to return to his home country where he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.  But, he was able to reunite with his family and see grandchildren he'd never met, so it was a good ending for him.

[sinbin]

I dug this out. 

 

 

 

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Test fees

The test will cost THB 3,800 per person. You will pay the clinic directly for the cost of your TB test. The cost of the test is in addition to the visa application fee.

The test fee does not cover treatment if you have tuberculosis.

Children under 11 who do not require screening will have to pay THB 500 per person as an interview fee.

Those children who the clinician decides will need screening will be charged the same fees as adults although they will not be charged the additional THB 500 interview fee - if the clinician decides that the children will need screening they only charge THB 3,800.

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tuberculosis-test-for-a-uk-visa-clinics-in-thailand/tuberculosis-testing-in-thailand

[jeanpierre]

ok thanks to every one who gived a helping advise problem solved he had a bactieral invection so lost 14 kg and very weak now i take care of him after one week and antibiotic pills he went 3kg up 

thanks again sirikit hospital thumps up