Bangkok Will Implement Home and Community Isolation for Mild COVID-19 Patients

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) will implement home and community isolation for asymptomatic COVID-19 patients and those with mild symptoms in the capital, starting with a community isolation center inside Sri Sudaram Temple on 9 July.

 

According to the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) operation center’s assistant spokeswoman Dr Apisamai Srirangsan, home isolation will be implemented by 69 health service centers under the BMA, as well as 201 community health clinics affiliated with the National Health Security Office’s universal healthcare scheme.

 

She said the CCSA operation center’s meeting also discussed opening community isolation facilities in each district of Bangkok, where people with mild to moderate symptoms will stay while waiting for hospital beds. Patients need to be brought into the system to be looked after as quickly as possible.

 

Meanwhile, Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang said the BMA is planning to open 18 more centers in districts that have a high number of infections, to help curb the spread of the virus and prevent possible clusters of cases. Bangkok reported 3,116 new cases on Friday, which pushed the capital’s cumulative case, since 1 April 2021, to 90,613.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2021-07-11

[hotchilli]

The medical hub of Asia is starting to fracture... 

[Surelynot]

Home isolation will not work.......imagine telling a Thai who only earns when he/she is working and who doesn't feel ill, to stay at home......ain't going to happen

[david555]

 For those asymptomatic ones better  leave them home , give them the needed equipment as thermometer and tel. Numbers to call in case worsening or need of urgent delivery's

Would take less efforts as those emergancy hospitals who are more dangerous to make them more infected as too crowded with different levels of infected .

[Surelynot]

1 minute ago, david555 said:

give them the needed equipment

....give them the money they need!!!

[Caldera]

"Community isolation" is just a field hospital by another name.

 

Home isolation is obviously a good idea, but the catch is that many Bangkokians cannot isolate from other family members at home.

 

So this doesn't really amount to a lot of tangible change.

[david555]

4 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

Home isolation will not work.......imagine telling a Thai who only earns when he/she is working and who doesn't feel ill, to stay at home......ain't going to happen

Difgerent opinion and case 

 

I am not working ,so i would sure stay inside against the possible chance to become noticed in case asymptomatic with or whitout fever ,than be locked in such a giant emergancy place with more risk to get worse infected .

 

But yes ...i am not a Thai who need to go work for having money and so food on the table ...makes a difference

[david555]

5 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

....give them the money they need!!!

Would be the best .but think the thermometer and call credit more chance to get  to them ...

[pmarlin]

What approval. Hospitals have been already doing it. I know that for a fact.