Anutin checks in on 42 illegal migrants being treated for Covid-19

By The Nation

 

 

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul visited the immigration quarantine centre in Songkhla’s Sadao district on Thursday (April 30) to check on the 42 illegal migrants who contracted Covid-19 and to offer encouragement to the medics looking after them.

 

The 42, who had contracted the virus from an immigration officer who visited them in their detention centre, are being looked after in an open-air field hospital because moving the patients will be too complicated, doctors say.

 

“These patients are being well looked after by local administration staff and public health officials, and there is constant monitoring for new infections. Treatment will be immediately provided if any symptoms are detected,” the minister said.

 

The minister also stopped by at the Sadao-Padang Besar checkpoint to monitor Thai returnees from Malaysia as well as provide face masks and hand sanitising gel to border officials.

 

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He is, without doubt, the milk of human kindness.

 

Bet he gave 'em some shower gel too....

4 minutes ago, faraday said:

He is, without doubt, the milk of human kindness.

 

Bet he gave 'em some shower gel too....

Straight up?

11 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

 

The 42, who had contracted the virus from an immigration officer who visited them in their detention centre,

Ducks sake .. How'd that happen .. 

Is it not a little tacky having this bloke turn it into a P R stunt by visiting with camera .. If he did have to trouble them it could have been done low key .. 

 

17 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

are being looked after in an open-air field hospital because moving the patients will be too complicated, doctors say.

Too complicated .! Just put them in ambulances and take them to a proper hoz' .. Or maybe its because they are illegals that its " too complicated " .. That is the lamest excuse I've read in a long time .. 

1 minute ago, Justgrazing said:

Ducks sake .. How'd that happen .. 

Is it not a little tacky having this bloke turn it into a P R stunt by visiting with camera .. If he did have to trouble them it could have been done low key .. 

 

Too complicated .! Just put them in ambulances and take them to a proper hoz' .. Or maybe its because they are illegals that its " too complicated " .. That is the lamest excuse I've read in a long time .. 

Just get some British potholers involved - they'll get them shifted in no time, and with no loss of life.

35 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

who had contracted the virus from an immigration officer

huh!

A nut in just loves filthy foreigners.

Maybe that's why they are being treated to the open air hospitals......

5 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The minister also stopped by at the Sadao-Padang Besar checkpoint to monitor Thai returnees from Malaysia as well as provide face masks and hand sanitising gel to border officials.

I really hope that all the returnees accepted these "presents", otherwise he might have closed the border again ????

Thanks them for not being filthy Westerners.

So this is where he is....been quiet lately, miss his hard working efforts..

9 hours ago, Rhys said:

So this is where he is....been quiet lately, miss his hard working efforts..

Yes, government, army, police, you know you're truly scr#wed when you get sent to the Deep South.

Have we seen these 42 in the national tally or are they only counting Thais and not immigrants and dirty farangs.

1 hour ago, Swimfan said:

Have we seen these 42 in the national tally or are they only counting Thais and not immigrants and dirty farangs.

Yes, they were reported in the figures for 25th April.