Health Ministry elaborates on 26bn baht COVID-19 budget

[webfact]

 

By Paphamon Arayasukawat

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Ministry of Public Health has elaborated on its procurement plans for a 26 billion baht budget allocation from emergency loans, mainly for the purchase of medications, vaccine, and protective equipment for COVID-19 patient care, while the actual spending so far is still less than 6 billion.

 

The Ministry of Public Health’s Deputy Permanent Secretary Dr Sura Wisedsak, said today the budget will fund 39 campaigns, with 25.175 billion baht saved for campaigns run by agencies under the MOPH.

 

A total of 4.726 billion baht will be paid as compensation to village health volunteers, while a portion of the 2.655 billion is to be used for the purchase of medications, vaccine, and lab operations by the Department of Disease Control and the National Vaccine Institute.

 

The National Health Security Office has been allocated a total of 6.764 billion for treatment, disease control, and research. The MOPH has allocated 10.182 billion baht to the preparation of hospitals to treat and isolate suspected COVID-19 cases, as well as another 1.496 billion for epidemic emergency responses.

 

Some agencies outside the MOPH are sharing a portion of a 650 million baht budget from this emergency loan allocation, such as the Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation, Phramongkutklao Hospital, the Police General Hospital, and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s Health Department.

 

So far, funding from the 25.8 billion baht budget has been approved for 13 campaigns, worth 17.61 billion in total. These include the purchase of isolation room equipment, personal protective equipment (PPE), COVID-19 vaccine, disease control equipment, radiation therapy devices; charges for public health services, compensation for village health volunteers and emergency operations charges for medical professionals, as well as the development of healthcare service system, labs, equipment, and vaccine quality.

 

From the approved 13 campaigns, disbursements of a total of 5.859 billion baht have already been processed. There are still 26 more campaigns awaiting approval for a total of 8.215 billion baht’s funding, with 19.174 billion still available.

 

The MOPH deputy permanent secretary said today that funding for these campaigns can be adapted according to the development of the COVID-19 situation in the country, to ensure the people are taken care of at the highest level.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2021-04-27

 

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[PatOngo]

How much will go to the snouts at the trough?

[Shuya]

10 minutes ago, webfact said:

26 billion baht budget allocation from emergency loans

Same pricetag as two submarines they want to buy

[Thailand]

Lots of baht to distrubuted.

[robblok]

21 minutes ago, Shuya said:

Same pricetag as two submarines they want to buy

Bet they still don't want to SINK that idea. 

[Thailand]

Just now, Thailand said:

 

Lots of baht to be distributed.

[Excel]

24 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

How much will go to the snouts at the trough?

Same take as is convention here I suspect 30%

[rodknock]

lots of room for ingordigiousness

[holy cow cm]

And was ole big mouth put on active keep your mouth pie hole shut while his petition for resignation is still gaining speed?

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, PatOngo said:

How much will go to the snouts at the trough?

It might be part of the "lets go halves scheme"?

[newnative]

    4.76 billion baht for 'village health volunteers'?  Don't they know volunteering is free?  Pity so little of the 26 billion went to actually buying vaccine.  

[Soikhaonoiken]

26 billion Baht is probably a lot less than what the hiso ministers have already taken out of Government coffers, 

Also why so little  been spent already, no doubt waiting to see how much can be shared out at the end of the day... 

[herfiehandbag]

I misread the headline at first glance.

 

I thought it said "Health Ministry celebrates..."

 

Nothing out of the ordinary says I....

[MrJ2U]

10 hours ago, Shuya said:

Same pricetag as two submarines they want to buy

Under the terms of the government-to-government deal, a Chinese state-owned shipbuilding conglomerate will build and sell three advanced export variants of the Type 039B Yuan-class submarine – to be called the S26T – for the price of two, or 36 billion baht (US$1.16 billion).Sep 17, 2563 BE

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