Hospitals ordered to admit Covid-19 cases as emergency patients carrying dangerous communicable disease

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Hospitals ordered to admit Covid-19 cases as emergency patients carrying dangerous communicable disease

By The Nation

 

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The Public Health Ministry has categorised people infected with the new coronavirus (Covid-19) as patients carrying a dangerous communicable disease who must be admitted by hospitals immediately.

 

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul announced on Wednesday (March 4) that a person infected with Covid-19 must be admitted by the hospital as an emergency patient of a dangerous communicable disease. Under the law, even hospitals that do not have the facilities or specialist doctors to deal with the cases must admit the patients and provide preliminary care before transferring them to better-equipped hospitals.

 

Meanwhile, Anutin admitted that there was some confusion about the list of high-risk countries and territories which had appeared on his Facebook page yesterday. He said on Wednesday that the list was not final. Among the risk destinations were Japan, Germany, South Korea, China, including Macau and Hong Kong, Taiwan, French, Singapore, Italy and Iran.

 

The Administrative Court on February 29 had published in the Royal Gazette an order prohibiting its personnel from visiting high-risk countries and territories that included Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, South Korea, China (including Macau and Hong Kong), Taiwan, Italy and Iran.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30383376

 

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[PatOngo]

I'm surprised they can still show Anutin's face, he has lost it soooo many times!

[legend49]

48 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

I'm surprised they can still show Anutin's face, he has lost it soooo many times!

Yes can they switch out his photos with a photo of a nurse? I wont read anything he says anymore total BS.

[Oziex1]

So hospitals require a Govt directive to take in sick people.

[lamyai3]

3 minutes ago, Oziex1 said:

So hospitals require a Govt directive to take in sick people.

Sick people are bad for business. Front line staff have no doubt been instructed to send them home with a course of paracetamols and the advice to return if they're not better in three weeks. 

[bangkokfrog]

Interesting. Does this mean that if anyone (with or without insurance) catches it they can check into the nearest hospital (Bumrungrad, Phayathai, etc) and insist on treatment?

[tifino]

2 minutes ago, bangkokfrog said:

Interesting. Does this mean that if anyone (with or without insurance) catches it they can check into the nearest hospital (Bumrungrad, Phayathai, etc) and insist on treatment?

Even more so; as I haven't seen anything written up that foreigners 'specifically', still have to pay? 

Something that needs that needs to be made black'nwhite clear. 

 

[Tayaout]

10 minutes ago, tifino said:

Even more so; as I haven't seen anything written up that foreigners 'specifically', still have to pay? 

Something that needs that needs to be made black'nwhite clear. 

 

Yes it was specified in some article. It's free for Thai but foreigners have to pay. 

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, PatOngo said:

I'm surprised they can still show Anutin's face, he has lost it soooo many times!

The smile has gone as he sinks deeper in the mire!

[PatOngo]

3 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

The smile has gone as he sinks deeper in the mire!

Crash and burn!

[newnative]

Umm.  He's only NOW ordering this???

[Vacuum]

7 minutes ago, newnative said:

Umm.  He's only NOW ordering this???

He was 100% in control before,. Now he's not, so he order someone else to take care of it.

[Sonhia]

But! The FXXK OFF FOREIGNER Thai minister said WE HAVE IT UNDER CONTROL and yet Thai hospitals are not being upfront!!!

 

Thai mind set. Just tell a lie and all is good.

[humbug]

no one will believe these gangster regimes in health care, maybe the odd free test, but just like in CCP China, Iran all the other costs will

be incurred by the patient, which is why many of the poorer sections of society just can’t afford treatment,

 

then you have misdiagnosis to fudge numbers on top of fewer people paying large amounts to be treated, and just lying about numbers,

 

these gangster regimes are only good at taking money and controlling the narrative through control and force, human rights is something they laugh at the free societies for doing, it’s why they waited for IMF money before they enacted their relief packages and crisis management centers

[natway09]

Why do they not have some specified hospitals treat virus patients & leave some

"virus free"  With this directive all

Hospitals have just beome the most dangerous  place in Thailand to be 

[christophe75]

But it's impossible to know if the patient is infected... with the virus !

 

First, the patient must be... tested.

 

????

So the whole "order", again, doesn't make any sense.

 

Another charade, wrapped in a riddle and put in a box of "mental disorder".

[Ian Nagle]

6 hours ago, bangkokfrog said:

Interesting. Does this mean that if anyone (with or without insurance) catches it they can check into the nearest hospital (Bumrungrad, Phayathai, etc) and insist on treatment?

If you want to try that theory out, go ahead my friend. Bring plenty +++ of money with you.

[Ian Nagle]

I remember this  joker... Taking selfies of himself and fb posting how everything was under control whilst Terminal 21 in korat was under seige with innocent people shot dead inside. A wall of armed  security were between him and the shooter.  What a guy.

[chilli42]

Of course they have already implemented the plan for these hospitals to have the facilities and equipment to deal with these cases (isolation facilities, biohazard equipment for staff, respirators etc)  Maybe a place to spend some of that 3 Billion in helicopter money they are going to be giving out. 

[ivor bigun]

So if i have a bad cold and think maybe its corona and i go to hospital ,i get charged whether it is or not about 5k?

[Proboscis]

8 hours ago, bangkokfrog said:

Interesting. Does this mean that if anyone (with or without insurance) catches it they can check into the nearest hospital (Bumrungrad, Phayathai, etc) and insist on treatment?

don't be silly!

[soalbundy]

8 hours ago, bangkokfrog said:

Interesting. Does this mean that if anyone (with or without insurance) catches it they can check into the nearest hospital (Bumrungrad, Phayathai, etc) and insist on treatment?

Since it is a directive you have to be treated it would be free

[lamyai3]

6 hours ago, ivor bigun said:

So if i have a bad cold and think maybe its corona and i go to hospital ,i get charged whether it is or not about 5k?

Depends where you have the test. Might be as much as 15k.

[Mung]

13 hours ago, bangkokfrog said:

Interesting. Does this mean that if anyone (with or without insurance) catches it they can check into the nearest hospital (Bumrungrad, Phayathai, etc) and insist on treatment?

This is going to be a bad situation if things escalate. You don't want to have contagious people mingling in hospitals, separate facilities are needed. But again Thailand is a developing nation so.. 

[sangtip2]

On ‎3‎/‎5‎/‎2020 at 8:04 AM, bangkokfrog said:

Interesting. Does this mean that if anyone (with or without insurance) catches it they can check into the nearest hospital (Bumrungrad, Phayathai, etc) and insist on treatment?

Do you think that "Insurance" will pay for coronavirus ??    Good luck with that .