Provinces increase COVID-19 screening capacity

[rooster59]

Provinces increase COVID-19 screening capacity

 

 

BANGKOK(NNT) - Cities and provinces in Thailand are improving their facilities and services for COVID-19 screening and tests. Bangkok City Hall has launched a website where users can fill in a risk assessment form, and started a mobile testing service for persons at high-risk. Elsewhere, Udon Thani has opened a field hospital specifically for respiratory disease patients, the first of its kind in the northeastern region.

 

The Governor of Udon Thani has visited the respiratory diseases field hospital, the first of its kind in the province and the northeastern region, where he expressed support for medical staff treating patients.

 

The field hospital uses shipping containers as history taking rooms, examination rooms, and a pharmacy. Equipped with a modern laboratory, the hospital can run tests for COVID-19, each taking three hours to return a result.

 

The opening of this field hospital helps increase the testing capacity to assess persons at high risk, such as people who have been to places with confirmed transmission, medical workers, and the general public in close contact with COVID-19 patients. The hospital also serves other patients, with consultation and treatment offered as normal.

 

In the capital, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) Spokesman, Pol Capt Pongsakorn Kwanmuang announced that City Hall has developed the BKK Covid19 online screening service, available on www.bkkcovid19.bangkok.go.th website.

 

The general public can fill in an online questionnaire designed by doctors to assess their risk of COVID-19 infection. Those considered at risk after completing the questionnaire will have the option of calling in a mobile testing van to check for any infection. Those who are at high-risk after completing the questionnaire can request immediate help from the channels provided.

 

In Samut Sakhon, the provincial TOT office has adapted unused telephone booths into a protective chamber protecting medical professionals while collecting test specimens from patients.

 

The front glass panes of the telephone booth were removed and replaced with a clear acrylic sheet. Ventilators and illuminations were installed, as well as a cavity allowing a medical worker stationed inside the booth to reach out to collect specimens by hand from a patient outside.

 

Five of these protective booths have been made, and will be delivered to Samut Sakhon Hospital, Krathumbaen Hospital, and Ban Phaeo Hospital.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2020-04-12

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[marko kok prong]

That explains what it is i thought it looked like a phone box.

[ParkerN]

No mention of the capacity of all these wonderful arrangements. I would have thought that the scepticism which surrounds government numbers would have resulted in more open stats.

 

It seems not, so the Thai approach to having tokens in place of actions, continues unabated.

 

*sigh*

[RichardColeman]

The panic and harrassment of farang, you'd think they'd test all the foreigners first !

[Justgrazing]

3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

as well as a cavity allowing a medical worker stationed inside the booth to reach out to collect specimens by hand from a patient outside.

Eh ! is something missing 'ere .. those grey discy things in the pic of the fone box are they the gloves that the dude will use when he's in cavity .. So who does he hand the specimens to after collecting if he's inside with his hands in glove and specimens are on the outside .. Or has he got a goffer to run out and collect 'em from gloved hands which kinda defeats the object does it not ..  

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[Thailand]

Why do they need so many new testing facilities when there are so few cases. Perhaps a relationship between the two?

[Thailand]

That damned ad is almost blocking the middle of my screen and even clicking on "x" does not get rid of it. 

Using an old IPad. No problems with the desktop PC.

[HashBrownHarry]

9 minutes ago, Thailand said:

That damned ad is almost blocking the middle of my screen and even clicking on "x" does not get rid of it. 

Using an old IPad. No problems with the desktop PC.

You'd think with the amount of complaints about these ads something might get done.......