Provinces accelerate vaccination for medical personnel, risk groups

[webfact]

 

By Sirakij Pornbanggird

   

YALA (NNT) - Each province has accelerated vaccination for medical personnel and frontline workers at risk. Overall, the Thai government has hit its target of offering a first jab to everyone in the top priority groups. Only minor side effects have been reported among recipients.

 

Yala Hospital has provided vaccination to all vulnerable personnel in Muang Yala district except for some who do not wish to receive the vaccine. Seventy percent of public health personnel of the hospital has already received nearly 3,000 doses of vaccine. Dr In Chandaeng, Director of Yala Hospital, said, after vaccination, most of them did not experience any side effects.

 

Only minor symptoms like those from the flu vaccine have been reported. Yala Hospital has always followed up on the vaccine recipients after the vaccination through the "Mor Promp application". He also asked the vaccine recipients not to be worried.

 

The third batch of vaccine that will arrive at the end of this month is supposed to be for a risk group with seven diseases. Then, the vaccine will be offered to the general public.

 

Chonburi Hospital has begun providing the second dose of vaccine to medical personnel and frontline workers. No side effects have been found. There were only some people who had a body ache. As for the first dose of vaccine offered on Monday and Wednesday, one person was numb but got better in about half an hour.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2021-04-26

 

- Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you

- Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates

[faraday]

11 minutes ago, webfact said:

one person was numb but got better in about half an hour.

 Bit odd...

 

If it 'got better' then it most likely wasn't anything to do with the vaccine, so why mention it?

 

Patient was probably leaning on their elbow.

 

However, this is slightly encouraging news I suppose. Far better if 300,000 had been done though. ????

 

 

[ThailandRyan]

Jesus Christ, why the hell were these folks not vaccinated before the government minions.  Who the heck is on the front lines.  Sure as hell isn't the government. Prayuts leading from the rear with Anutin. They need a leader to lead from the front like General Sherman in WW2. Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way government.  Give the medical personnel the reigns to run the show.

[smedly]

4 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Jesus Christ, why the hell were these folks not vaccinated before the government minions.  Who the heck is on the front lines.  Sure as hell isn't the government. Prayuts leading from the rear with Anutin. They need a leader to lead from the front like General Sherman in WW2. Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way government.  Give the medical personnel the reigns to run the show.

totally agree, plus after vaccination it takes weeks to build up any sort of effective useful immune response.

 

seems the higher priority was to send thousands of doses to places like Phuket to support the tourism industry - they threw health workers under the bus and that includes the failing medical transport system personnel who are dropping like flies - and now in come the unvaccinated army to help out 

 

you couldn't make this stuff up 

[billsmart]

Which vaccine are they using for this, Sinovac (China) or Sputnik V (Russia)?

 

And when vaccines become available to the public, which vaccines are they expected to be?

[kingstonkid]

Vaccination is not the problem.  The fact that it was sinovac is.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Each province has accelerated vaccination for medical personnel and frontline workers at risk

Which should have happened all along, until Pipat got involved to open up Phuket.

[ThaiFelix]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

The third batch of vaccine that will arrive at the end of this month is supposed to be for a risk group with seven diseases. Then, the vaccine will be offered to the general public.

Looks like I need to pick up another couple of diseases real quick but all the entertainment venues are already closed!!

[Golden Triangle]

Sometimes living in Thailand is like living in a perpetual pantomime..................????

 

 

 

Come on now everyone, play the game ????????????????

[newnative]

Absolutely criminal that the health workers were not vaccinated first before everyone else. 

[Emdog]

7 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Jesus Christ, why the hell were these folks not vaccinated before the government minions.  Who the heck is on the front lines.  Sure as hell isn't the government. Prayuts leading from the rear with Anutin. They need a leader to lead from the front like General Sherman in WW2. Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way government.  Give the medical personnel the reigns to run the show.

Agree with you. Just wish to point out perhaps you meant General Patton for WW2. He used Sherman tanks, among others. "Uncle Billy" Sherman was in the US Civil War. "Pandemics are hell" not what he said ???? Not sure if we'd want equivalent of his "march to the sea" from Atlanta where total destruction of rebel resources was the objective