Several Thai provinces welcome COVID-infected natives home for treatment

[snoop1130]

 

Due to the critical shortage of hospital beds in and around Bangkok, several provinces have announced their readiness to accept their infected natives, who have been waiting for empty beds in Bangkok and its vicinities, for medical treatment.

 

Notices were separately posted on the webpages of Nakhon Ratchasima, Khon Kaen, Phetchabun, Lampang, Phitsanulok, Sakhon Nakhon and Sisaket provinces, announcing that any COVID-19 infected patients, who are natives of those provinces and are waiting to be admitted into hospitals, can contact their respective provinces if they want to return home for medical treatment.

 

“Welcome Home,” reads the notice from Khao Kho district of Phetchabun, for any native people, who come from Bangkok or other Red Zone provinces and who have developed a fever, sore throat, muscle pain or who have anosmia. They should report to their community leaders, public health volunteers or health officials so they will get treatment.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/several-thai-provinces-welcome-covid-infected-natives-home-for-treatment/

 

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[ukrules]

They're coming home anyway, they know this and they also know that they can't stop them.

 

Using the facade of welcoming them home they can round them up and lock them away.

[ThailandRyan]

Since it makes sense as they were probably headed that way anyway since they can not work here in BKK.  Hope they do get them sorted. Wonder how many may need ventilators and how many have already been vaccinated. Sure we will never here.

Edited June 30, 2021 by ThailandRyan

[jerrymahoney]

30 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Wonder how many may need ventilators and how many have already been vaccinated. Sure we will never here.

You're right you will never hear here but it's in the Thai language press.

[hotchilli]

Escaping Bangkok which is crumbling to a home hospital for a couple of weeks... 

[ThailandRyan]

11 hours ago, jerrymahoney said:

You're right you will never hear here but it's in the Thai language press.

I read the Thai news and watch the news cast during the day.  No mention in them at all of the number of ventilators available and how many in those locations are on ventilators.  Unless you see a local paper for Udon, or Songkhla or Kalasin that I do not have access to please share the link  I do read Thai.

[mtls2005]

Just when you get too jaded here, you see a spark of kindness, humanity and goodness like this and it brings you back.

 

And this shifts the health-care burden from areas which are overcome with patients, to areas where they have facilites available.

 

 

Add to this the huge number of people (incl a lot of foreigners) with grass-roots efforts to help, and there may be hope despite the regime.

 

 

[MrJ2U]

Anyone coming from Bangkok in our village is treated like a pariah.

 

 

[MrJ2U]

With all these people leaving and some having there first vaccine jab I wonder how they can arrange to get there second.  Extremely difficult to get one Jab here in Sakhon Nakhon.

 

[Cake Monster]

13 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Since it makes sense as they were probably headed that way anyway since they can not work here in BKK.  Hope they do get them sorted. Wonder how many may need ventilators and how many have already been vaccinated. Sure we will never here.

This will just encourage more of them to do a runner, as they will get some medical attention that is woefully lacking in BKK

[jerrymahoney]

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

  Unless you see a local paper for Udon, or Songkhla or Kalasin that I do not have access to please share the link  I do read Thai.

https://www.khonkaenlink.info/read/44686/

[RubbaJohnny]

As few drive home alone it means buses trains and vans are the new vector.Like Songkran this was all predictable.