Unfair - not enough medical staff: Facebook post highlights ongoing struggle with Covid in Thailand

[webfact]

Picture: Sanook

 

Sanook reported that Thai social media users were busy sharing a story after a picture of a Covid-19 hospital staffer who had fainted outside a ward was posted on Facebook.

 

The lady had been wearing PPE so long she had passed out, the post claimed. 

 

It said that the staff levels were insufficient to cope and it had been that way ever since the first wave until now. 

 

It mentioned 14 Covid patients and 2 PUI (patients under investigation). There were onlty 3 nurses and two "PN" staff. 

 

They said they had more duties each and every day and "it was just not fair".

 

The picture of the flaked out nurse was widely shared.

 

Sanook decided to 'vaseline' out the name of the poster and did not reveal where this had occurred. 

 

ASEAN Now notes that Thailand has strict defamation laws. 

 

-- © Copyright ASEAN NOW 2021-07-02

 

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

- Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates

[Bluespunk]

Didn’t realise ppe causes fainting.
 

Though if you are going to faint a hospital is as good a place as any to do so I suppose.  

Edited July 2, 2021 by Bluespunk

[robblok]

Thing is this is only the beginning, with the higher and higher case load. Soon more and more health officials will be exhausted and lack of ICU beds.  They just cant get more nurses and Dr's so this is a losing battle all caused by the idiot goverment that bet all on 1 vaccine. 

 

Not to mention opening for Songkran and the Krystal club. Its just a sad state of affairs.

[Pravda]

27 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Didn’t realise ppe causes fainting.
 

Though if you are going to faint a hospital is as good a place as any to do so I suppose.  

 

Probably a mask?

[Surelynot]

They will be happy and all will forgiven once they receive their 1% pay rise.

[Patong2021]

5 minutes ago, Pravda said:

Probably a mask?

No.

[Patong2021]

33 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Didn’t realise ppe causes fainting.
 

Though if you are going to faint a hospital is as good a place as any to do so I suppose.  

Try wearing impermeable plastic coverings all day in a building that is not particularly cool.

The intent of personal protective Equipment  is to  protect the user from being exposed to liquids and aerosols. this means that the  material does not "breath". Take some garbage bags and wear them. Do it while rushing back and forth without time to  rest.

Last plAce  a sick person wants to be is in thai hospital swamped with Covid patients.

[Surelynot]

1 minute ago, Patong2021 said:

The intent of personal protective Equipment  is to  protect the user from being exposed to liquids and aerosols

I thought it was to prevent an infected person spreading droplets and infecting others.........wearing a mask does little to protect the wearer.

[Bluespunk]

3 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

Try wearing impermeable plastic coverings all day in a building that is not particularly cool.

The intent of personal protective Equipment  is to  protect the user from being exposed to liquids and aerosols. this means that the  material does not "breath". Take some garbage bags and wear them. Do it while rushing back and forth without time to  rest.

Last plAce  a sick person wants to be is in thai hospital swamped with Covid patients.

Disagree with you on last point, didn’t read the lecture at start after reading initial patronising tone. 

[ezzra]

Prayut Chan o Cha and his cohorts  who miserably fail to manage this Covid fiasco should go and the sooner the better the trouble is that there is no one else out there who can save this country form the mismanagement that is going on...

Edited July 2, 2021 by ezzra

[jacko45k]

39 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

I thought it was to prevent an infected person spreading droplets and infecting others.........wearing a mask does little to protect the wearer.

Oh give it a rest..... a hospital worker is wearing PPE to protect themselves from infection. 

Infected patients usually do not wear PPE,  perhaps a mask. 

[Surelynot]

44 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Oh give it a rest..... a hospital worker is wearing PPE to protect themselves from infection. 

Infected patients usually do not wear PPE,  perhaps a mask. 

My mistake ....for some reason I read the original comment as mask wearing rather than PPE..........however I find  the...... "Oh give it a rest" as totally unnecessary and rather unpleasant to be honest.

[RichardColeman]

Could they not use some of the 6,000,000 tourism workers for some of the mundane stuff to ease them slightly ? 

[NicholasTH]

This is what happens when corruption is rife in the educational system.

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, Surelynot said:

"Oh give it a rest" as totally unnecessary and rather unpleasant to be honest.

You will get over it, try a glass of warm milk!

[grandpa]

Interesting that the person who has fainted has not been put in the recovery position!  I shall not be going to that hospital if their medical staff do not know even basic First Aid!

 

[Surelynot]

1 minute ago, jacko45k said:

You will get over it, try a glass of warm milk!

I can't....I've really tried ........you have no idea how much you hurt me.

[sapson]

5 minutes ago, grandpa said:

Interesting that the person who has fainted has not been put in the recovery position!  I shall not be going to that hospital if their medical staff do not know even basic First Aid!

 

 

Facebook photo shoots always take priority in Thailand.

[herfiehandbag]

2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Could they not use some of the 6,000,000 tourism workers for some of the mundane stuff to ease them slightly ? 

You would have to pay them, and even at minimum wage levels that would disrupt some cash flows...

[Chassa]

1 hour ago, sapson said:

Facebook photo shoots always take priority in Thailand

Anywhere!

 

[edwinchester]

2 hours ago, grandpa said:

Interesting that the person who has fainted has not been put in the recovery position!  I shall not be going to that hospital if their medical staff do not know even basic First Aid!

 

Picture on the left appears to show the person checking for a femoral artery pulse so hopefully they know the basics but, same as you, surprised they didn't put their colleague in the recovery position.

Maybe she woke up and said she was ok...........or perhaps they thought she was dead.

 

Edited July 2, 2021 by edwinchester

[natway09]

The PP gear gets very hot inside as it is designed not to allow any airflow.

In Thailand in non aircon areas it must get stifling hot.

All Government medical staff all around the world are overwhelmed at present.

She was more than likely dehydrated as well

In the UK the "English Roses" in this gear are dropping like flies & now have to have a 2 hour break after wearing for 5 hours

[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

It said that the staff levels were insufficient to cope and it had been that way ever since the first wave until now. 

Any health care system would be feeling the strain, Thailand maybe has more underlying issues than it might like to let on.

[Dogmatix]

Rather basic PPE.  No gloves or shoes.

[Rampant Rabbit]

16 hours ago, webfact said:

ASEAN Now notes that Thailand has strict defamation laws.

Good  news eh! Subtle threats,  gonna  bite  you in the ass  one day.

[Rampant Rabbit]

7 hours ago, Dogmatix said:

Rather basic PPE.  No gloves or shoes.

Probably worn the same set day in day out for days as  well.

[Rampant Rabbit]

16 hours ago, Surelynot said:

They will be happy and all will forgiven once they receive their 1% pay rise.

Better than the Thai fruit  basket

[Patong2021]

On 7/1/2021 at 11:43 PM, Surelynot said:

I thought it was to prevent an infected person spreading droplets and infecting others.........wearing a mask does little to protect the wearer.

PPE is not just a mask. PPE includes gowns, gloves, shoe covering, eye and face protection.  The PPE with exception of mask is used to protect health care worker. The mask protects both the worker and the patient. In the infectious wards, staff wear N/KN95 masks when available, which reduce the wearer inhalation exposure to aerosol. The more exposed, the more likely to become infected.

 

 

[Letseng]

On 7/2/2021 at 5:02 AM, Bluespunk said:

Didn’t realise ppe causes fainting.
 

Though if you are going to faint a hospital is as good a place as any to do so I suppose.  

Wearing PPE is tough on the staff. You can't just quickly have a drink of water, have a bite to eat in between or go to the loo. Normally, you would have 2 nurses p patient in ICU. You go and do the job before u make stupid comments.

[Bluespunk]

11 minutes ago, Letseng said:

Wearing PPE is tough on the staff. You can't just quickly have a drink of water, have a bite to eat in between or go to the loo. Normally, you would have 2 nurses p patient in ICU. You go and do the job before u make stupid comments.

And what was stupid about my comment. Are you so arrogant that you don’t allow people to admit they didn’t know something? 

Edited July 3, 2021 by Bluespunk