Thai Government to Set up 5,000-bed Field Hospital at Suvarnabhumi Airport

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Thailand’s Ministries of Public Health and Transport have been preparing a 5,000-bed field hospital at Suvarnabhumi airport, to cope with soaring COVID-19 infections.

 

Deputy government spokeswoman Ratchada Dhnadirek said the decision to set up the hospital, in the airport’s Satellite 1 building, was made following an inspection carried out by the Ministry of Public Health.

 

She said patients with moderate and mild conditions will be treated on the 3rd and 4th floors of the building, while medical services and intensive care units will be on the 2nd floor. The field hospital is expected to begin operating next month.

 

Ms Ratchada also said the Ministry of Public Health has already extended the contract to use the Challenger Hall at the Impact Muang Thong Thani exhibition centre in Nonthaburi, for the Bussarakham field hospital, until the end of October.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2021-07-11

[internationalism]

there is no nr 1 satellite building. Terminal 2 is in construction.

Picture is of concourse E (used by arab airlines).

There are very few toilets. And no showers.

There are some toilets at nearby of F and G, using them would mean closing also those 2.

How moving a lot of patients in and out impact on airport security?

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Thailand’s Ministries of Public Health and Transport have been preparing a 5,000-bed field hospital at Suvarnabhumi airport, to cope with soaring COVID-19 infections

That'll take care of Monday mornings figures... what about the rest?

[Surelynot]

...at least there will be air!!!

[rasmus5150]

I'm sure the potential 100+ sandbox tourists, will be thrilled to hear they have to land at a field hospital.

 

TAT can promote it as "Adventure Holiday".....

[connda]

That will fill up in four hours.

[connda]

6 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

She said patients with moderate and mild conditions will be treated on the 3rd and 4th floors of the building, while medical services and intensive care units will be on the 2nd floor.

There are close to 10000 cases a day.  The government wants to incarcerate all PCR positives.  Do the math - the facility is already full and it hasn't even opened.  It can't handle a half of a day's worth of "cases."

In Denmark (and most likely other Western nations) 83% of the cases (asymptomatic, mild, and manageable) are treated at home.  Only 17% are treated in hospitals.¹ 

Thailand's insistence in locking up "cases" in hospitals has already destroyed the health care system in many locations and will wipe it out nationwide if they don't implement a more conservative model.
With the currently over-burdened health care system, people with other severe non-covid health problems will be left to die as hospital care workers are repurposed to act as "guards" who watch the asymptomatic, mild, and manageable "cases" that don't actually need hospitalization. 
Health care providers and workers need to provide health care.  Not provide what is effectively a prison security detail to monitor Covid-positive patients who for all practical purposes are "inmates" to be watch, tracked, monitored, and constrained in "field hospitals" that are essentially panopticons.

The world has gone freaking nuts - Thailand's on the bleeding edge of that insanity.

Attribution:
^{1. EBioMedicine Published by The Lancet, Volume 68, June 2021, 103410
SARS-CoV-2 elicits robust adaptive immune responses regardless of disease severity, Stine SF Nielsen, et.al}

[MrJ2U]

They mentioned that last week.  Whats the delay?

 

Tourists aren't going to like flying into an airport filled with 5000 COVID-19 patients.  I don't care how safe they will say it is.

 

Baffled how these men became Generals and Ministers.  They seem brainless and aloof with facts.

[ChipButty]

14 minutes ago, MrJ2U said:

They mentioned that last week.  Whats the delay?

 

Tourists aren't going to like flying into an airport filled with 5000 COVID-19 patients.  I don't care how safe they will say it is.

 

Baffled how these men became Generals and Ministers.  They seem brainless and aloof with facts.

Money thats all it takes

[Dont confuse me]

5000 bed field hospital, 10000 new cases a day, they will be occupied within a week, then what?

[ALLSEEINGEYE]

5 hours ago, connda said:

There are close to 10000 cases a day.  The government wants to incarcerate all PCR positives.  Do the math - the facility is already full and it hasn't even opened.  It can't handle a half of a day's worth of "cases."

In Denmark (and most likely other Western nations) 83% of the cases (asymptomatic, mild, and manageable) are treated at home.  Only 17% are treated in hospitals.¹ 

Thailand's insistence in locking up "cases" in hospitals has already destroyed the health care system in many locations and will wipe it out nationwide if they don't implement a more conservative model.
With the currently over-burdened health care system, people with other severe non-covid health problems will be left to die as hospital care workers are repurposed to act as "guards" who watch the asymptomatic, mild, and manageable "cases" that don't actually need hospitalization. 
Health care providers and workers need to provide health care.  Not provide what is effectively a prison security detail to monitor Covid-positive patients who for all practical purposes are "inmates" to be watch, tracked, monitored, and constrained in "field hospitals" that are essentially panopticons.

The world has gone freaking nuts - Thailand's on the bleeding edge of that insanity.

Attribution:
^{1. EBioMedicine Published by The Lancet, Volume 68, June 2021, 103410
SARS-CoV-2 elicits robust adaptive immune responses regardless of disease severity, Stine SF Nielsen, et.al}

Which is exactly why there is no point in even getting tested unless you have trouble breathing and need to be in a hospital. So the 9k per day of new cases is easily many times higher than that and the really sick people an't get in to a hospital.

 

Hard to imagine this govt. doing a worse job than they have done with this.

[Sharron Merrilees]

19 hours ago, connda said:

There are close to 10000 cases a day.  The government wants to incarcerate all PCR positives.  Do the math - the facility is already full and it hasn't even opened.  It can't handle a half of a day's worth of "cases."

In Denmark (and most likely other Western nations) 83% of the cases (asymptomatic, mild, and manageable) are treated at home.  Only 17% are treated in hospitals.¹ 

Thailand's insistence in locking up "cases" in hospitals has already destroyed the health care system in many locations and will wipe it out nationwide if they don't implement a more conservative model.
With the currently over-burdened health care system, people with other severe non-covid health problems will be left to die as hospital care workers are repurposed to act as "guards" who watch the asymptomatic, mild, and manageable "cases" that don't actually need hospitalization. 
Health care providers and workers need to provide health care.  Not provide what is effectively a prison security detail to monitor Covid-positive patients who for all practical purposes are "inmates" to be watch, tracked, monitored, and constrained in "field hospitals" that are essentially panopticons.

The world has gone freaking nuts - Thailand's on the bleeding edge of that insanity.

Attribution:
^{1. EBioMedicine Published by The Lancet, Volume 68, June 2021, 103410
SARS-CoV-2 elicits robust adaptive immune responses regardless of disease severity, Stine SF Nielsen, et.al}

If you think Thailand is on the edge of insanity tack a look at Australia, we are so stuffed up down here that I can only get AZ because of my age 60 pulse and I do not want that will only go for Pfizer so might miss out all together. It was the cheap on AZ so now Pfizer here but not enough us oldies get what left over in hope we die before hand. Only 25% vaccinated so far I would much rather be up there.