Bangkok hospital planning to import foreign Covid-19 cases

[webfact]

Bangkok hospital planning to import foreign Covid-19 cases

By The Nation

 

 

A Bangkok hospital director has proposed flying in Covid-19 patients from abroad for treatment at his hospital.

 

Dr Rienthong Nanna, director of Mongkutwattana Hospital, is considering medical flights to bring international Covid-19 cases to the hospital in an attempt to stimulate the economy.

 

Each flight would carry 60 passengers and be adapted with disease prevention measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus outside the cabin, he said in a Facebook post.

 

Under the proposal, Mongkutwattana Hospital will act as a state quarantine facility, caring for foreign patients until they are identified as “Covid-19 free” and able to start their visit as tourists in Thailand.

 

The proposal has been supported by several clinics that treat international patients. Accommodation providers who want to collaborate with the hospital to prepare medical flights and state quarantine have been invited to contact the director of Mongkutwattana Hospital’s office.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30390740

 

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[MadMac]

Nice. Pandora would be proud of him! ????

[Justgrazing]

Hahaha .. some of these articles on trying to restart the economy should be in Viz .. 

 

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

Each flight would carry 60 passengers and be adapted with disease prevention measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus outside the cabin, he said in a Facebook post.

So what is everyone inside the plane gonna be in their own little bubble .. and after the miracle of the cure how do you fly home .? In bubble class or ordinary again .. 

 

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

Under the proposal, Mongkutwattana Hospital will act as a state quarantine facility, caring for foreign patients until they are identified as “Covid-19 free” and able to start their visit as tourists in Thailand.

Gets nuttier by the paragraph .. 

 

13 minutes ago, webfact said:

Accommodation providers who want to collaborate with the hospital to prepare medical flights and state quarantine have been invited to contact the director of Mongkutwattana Hospital’s office.

Give us an update on providers fighting to get in the door on that .. 

[smedly]

jesus christ

[OneeyedJohn]

Why do they let these crazies out of the madhouse, it's worse than clockwork orange

[transam]

I'm going up the pub...............????

[holy cow cm]

At first I was thinking this is the work of Anutin which would make perfect sense, but it is some little doctor director quacking taking the booby prize of the week. How many Thai doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb?

[nikmar]

I get the feeling sometimes that somebody in a high up position somewhere reads these threads and thinks "What can we say now to really get them wound up?".

[blackcab]

Paragraph 2 Subsection 9 of the latest regulations issued by the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand forbid this.

 

 

[RJRS1301]

This is a thought bubble by a medical doctor(??) and a director of a hospital??

Has he been taking his medications??

 

[Captain Monday]

 

A covid-free USA passport holder who is in has been safe zone like 

Taiwan for months can't come to Thailand but they are going to import sick people?

 

April 1 was three months ago or now they are just batty now?

[Traubert]

34 minutes ago, nikmar said:

I get the feeling sometimes that somebody in a high up position somewhere reads these threads and thinks "What can we say now to really get them wound up?".

It's more than possible, really, they cant shoehorn TAT or road accidents into many more.

 

Or 'I was overcharged 50 baht.......'

[MadMac]

Perhaps the guy is eying the job of the next health minister, or just looking for an inactive post. Either way, my wife put it together in one word - "idiot".

[Toany]

I wonder what else Bangkok hospital is doing.  Think I'll give that hospital a miss

[Berti]

Wow I did not know that hospitals in Thailand are close to bankrupt.

Sounds desperate.

[MadMac]

2 minutes ago, Toany said:

I wonder what else Bangkok hospital is doing.  Think I'll give that hospital a miss

It is not Bangkok Hospital, just a hospital in Bangkok, somewhere in Chaeng Wattana.

[AlfHuy]

and get them a few Covid infected girls to make further tests to see, how Covid spreads.

[MadMac]

9 minutes ago, Berti said:

Wow I did not know that hospitals in Thailand are close to bankrupt.

Sounds desperate.

Sounds like a lot of greed to me, easy money, milk the aliens.

[stubuzz]

Will they be high end COVID cases?

[Welder]

Another attempt to boost tourism from China? 

[jaiyenyen]

This idea must be the result of a particularly severe brain fart.

[Emdog]

I've lived in Thailand almost 20 years

This gets my vote for the stupidest proposal here I've ever heard, bar none

[brucegoniners]

What a wonderful idea! Bring Covid into a country that has done such a great job of eradicating it.

 

Are they nuts?

[whaleboneman]

They can get the air force boys to retrofit an airliner as they did such a marvelous job with the taxi.

[klauskunkel]

He is not trying to "restart the economy", only his own economy.

[Bkk Brian]

Their running out of covid patients fast, it was a nice little earner. In the absence of further clusters they've decided to import a few

[hotchilli]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

A Bangkok hospital director has proposed flying in Covid-19 patients from abroad for treatment at his hospital.

???? nuff said.

[Don Mega]

With no tourists to stooge they wanna import some.... solid plan !!

[salsajapan]

If the government accept, it must be so desperate ! One more reason why it's so clear for anybody not totally stupid that visa amnesty will be extended !

 

 

[nauseus]

18 hours ago, blackcab said:

Paragraph 2 Subsection 9 of the latest regulations issued by the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand forbid this.

 

 

Yep, came to my mind straight away. What a mess.