Community Clinics Will Treat COVID-19 Patients Needing Beds in Greater Bangkok

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Thailand’s National Health Security Office (NHSO) says that COVID-19 patients, who request beds in Greater Bangkok via the NHSO hotline 1330, will receive medical treatment at home or at a venue in their community from Monday.

 

NHSO secretary-general Dr. Jadet Thammathat-Aree said that over 2,500 COVID-19 patients, with mild symptoms and are waiting for a hospital bed, will be included in the NHSO home and community isolation scheme instead. This move will enable patients to receive medical treatment faster, without fear of developing more severe symptoms.

 

He explained that patients under home or community isolation will receive three meals a day, medication to treat their symptoms and basic equipment to monitor their condition, adding that a doctor will check on them once a day via video call.

 

Dr. Jadet said the NHSO has a network of 204 community clinics in Bangkok alone, which can handle up to 40,000 COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms under the isolation scheme. However, patients with moderate or severe symptoms will not be included in the program, as they require medical care which can only be provided in hospitals.

 

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[Surelynot]

The same food they didn't deliver to the Myanmar workers held in camps I guess.

[smedly]

free sticky rice all round - wonderful

[hotchilli]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He explained that patients under home or community isolation will receive three meals a day, medication to treat their symptoms and basic equipment to monitor their condition, adding that a doctor will check on them once a day via video call.

Something just flew over my house, I didn't dare look up as the shadow was a very familiar shape.

[connda]

20 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

NHSO secretary-general Dr. Jadet Thammathat-Aree said that over 2,500 COVID-19 patients, with mild symptoms and are waiting for a hospital bed

If they have mild symptoms that don't need to be clogging up the hospital systems and taking beds when they can recover at home.  They are taking the beds from those who are seriously ill from all causes and desperately need them. 
I guess those people just need to shuffle off and die.  If it's not a Covid death it doesn't matter.
In Denmark as an example, only 17% of those who were PCR positive needed hospitalization with the other 83% recovering at home¹.  That's a sane solution that doesn't destroy the hospital systems.
Thailand's insistence of incarcerating all PCR positives in hospitals is the definition of insanity.  They turn health care providers into Covid security guards who watch to make sure the PCR positive 'patients' don't escape. These health care workers should only be tasked with taking care of seriously ill patients.  Mild and asymptomatic need to recover at home.  Those tasked with management of hospitals are responsible for purposefully destroying the hospital network's ability of serve all patients with serious illnesses.  It's totally insane as well as negligent and irresponsible.  These paranoid control freaks are not fit to lead.  I hope history judges these people harshly.

 

^{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}

[connda]

20 hours ago, Surelynot said:

The same food they didn't deliver to the Myanmar workers held in camps I guess.

Notice how quickly that embarrassment was dropped in the memory hole by Thai media.