Provincial hospitals near capacity as Covid patients flood home

[webfact]

 

By Erich Parpart

 

Covid patients looking to return to their home province for treatment should check with the intended hospital first as hospital beds are also beginning to fill up in other provinces besides Bangkok, the government said on Wednesday.

 

“Many provinces in the North and North East are now saying that their capacity is getting full and they may no longer be able to receive patients from the Bangkok and Metropolitan Region anymore,” said Apisamai Srirangson, the assistant spokeswoman of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).

 

“If you are intended to go back and be treated at your home province, you might have to check with the intended province first,” she added.

 

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[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

“Many provinces in the North and North East are now saying that their capacity is getting full and they may no longer be able to receive patients from the Bangkok and Metropolitan Region anymore,” said Apisamai Srirangson, the assistant spokeswoman of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).

Saturation point is fast approaching, infections and serious cases are forever rising, no efficient vaccines available for the majority, it's going pear-shaped very fast now.

[jojothai]

“If you are intended to go back and be treated at your home province, you might have to check with the intended province first,” she added."

Is the spreading of Covid essential travel?

What happened to any restrictions. The mind boggles.

[jojothai]

13 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Saturation point is fast approaching, infections and serious cases are forever rising, no efficient vaccines available for the majority, it's going pear-shaped very fast now.

"Apisamai said at the moment, at least 17 per cent of people walking in to be tested at medical facilities in Bangkok were found to be infected with the virus, which is “quite high”.

That says it all. Past saturation now.

[foreverlomsak]

2 minutes ago, jojothai said:

“If you are intended to go back and be treated at your home province, you might have to check with the intended province first,” she added."

Is the spreading of Covid essential travel?

What happened to any restrictions. The mind boggles.

If everybody that is infected in Bangkok goes to the provinces then the Government will be able to say they have successfully managed the infection in Bangkok, it's the provinces that are failing.

[foreverlomsak]

3 minutes ago, jojothai said:

"Apisamai said at the moment, at least 17 per cent of people walking in to be tested at medical facilities in Bangkok were found to be infected with the virus, which is “quite high”.

That says it all. Past saturation now.

Not quite in my opinion, how many of the 17% are actually sick, i.e. worse that a normal dose of flu or indeed are actually showing no signs at all.

[jojothai]

1 minute ago, foreverlomsak said:

Not quite in my opinion, how many of the 17% are actually sick, i.e. worse that a normal dose of flu or indeed are actually showing no signs at all.

They don't have to be sick to spread it. If he is telling the truth its a lost cause now.
The clowns have let everybody down with their incompetence on the vaccinations.

[Bangkok Barry]

Tick tick tick........

[Surelynot]

1 hour ago, foreverlomsak said:

If everybody that is infected in Bangkok goes to the provinces then the Government will be able to say they have successfully managed the infection in Bangkok, it's the provinces that are failing.

Someone did suggest this was an aim of the pretend lockdown......so you may well be correct.

[Surelynot]

5 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Tick tick tick........

Something against tocks?

[ourmanflint]

4 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Saturation point is fast approaching, infections and serious cases are forever rising, no efficient vaccines available for the majority, it's going pear-shaped very fast now.

Discussed with wife wether we should tell family in Thailand to buy personal supply of Oxygen just in case it is needed in the near future. Decided not to tell them so as not to inflame the supply shortage, but can't believe things have got so bad we even had to think like that

[MrJ2U]

In Issan it's hard to call them "hospitals".  There not much more than cement structures with no doctors.  Sakon Nakhon is really lacking in hospital facilities.  We usually travel to Udon Thani Bangkok Hospital for anything more than a runny nose.

 

Hopefully our family get doesn't get sick.  

 

Edited July 15, 2021 by MrJ2U

[MrJ2U]

2 hours ago, ourmanflint said:

Discussed with wife wether we should tell family in Thailand to buy personal supply of Oxygen just in case it is needed in the near future. Decided not to tell them so as not to inflame the supply shortage, but can't believe things have got so bad we even had to think like that

I think a lot of people are thinking the same.  I doubt the government is, useless government.