Phuket brings infected residents home to get treatment on the island

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Phuket resident has been transferred from Bangkok to the island to get COVID-19 treatment. Photo: PR Phuket

 

PHUKET: The first COVID-19 case from a dark-red zone province arrived on the island yesterday (July 16) under the “Bring Phuket People Home” project aimed at facilitating infected people to receive medical treatment in Phuket. 

 

Chief of Phuket Field Hospital at Prince of Songkhla University (PSU) Dr Bussaya Santisan explained that the case was a woman who worked in Bangkok and was found infected on July 13. The woman had to stay alone in her apartment and wait for hospital staff to inform her about bed availability in any of the hospitals. 

 

One of the woman’s parents contacted staff at Phuket Field Hospital and asked to bring their daughter back to the island to receive treatment. The parent then contacted an ambulance in Bangkok to bring the woman back, and medical staff picked her up at the Phuket Checkpoint. Then the woman was directly taken to Phuket Field Hospital.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-brings-infected-residents-home-to-get-treatment-on-the-island-80720.php

 

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[ikke1959]

Bring back the patients and also the Covid to spread in the provinces... More cases to come...

smart move

[PETERTHEEATER]

JC protect me....

[KarenBravo]

5 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Bring back the patients and also the Covid to spread in the provinces... More cases to come...

smart move

Repatriate your own citizens where they can get treatment, or abandon them to stay in whatever country they find themselves in?

 

Bet there are quite a few people wishing that their countries would do the same thing...........

 

 

Edited July 18, 2021 by KarenBravo

[stevenl]

2 hours ago, KarenBravo said:

Repatriate your own citizens where they can get treatment, or abandon them to stay in whatever country they find themselves in?

 

Bet there are quite a few people wishing that their countries would do the same thing...........

 

 

It's from Bangkok to Phuket. But yes, if kept isolated I don't see any issues.

[thailand49]

Another story to feed into our mines we aren't making this stuff up or going out of our way to bash them!  The thinking here is just backwards and that is being very very kind!

[ikke1959]

2 hours ago, KarenBravo said:

Repatriate your own citizens where they can get treatment, or abandon them to stay in whatever country they find themselves in?

 

Bet there are quite a few people wishing that their countries would do the same thing...........

 

 

in the same country from place to place to risk more infections..... sometimes bring an sacrifice for mankind, but not here in Thailand...

[jcmj]

What’s the big deal and why worry. She came from the hospital into a van and brought directly to another hospital. Better than many driving to their provinces to get checked and if positive put in some sort of hospital. 

[oldcpu]

I think many hospitals in other provinces are overloaded due to the rapid spread of this pandemic elsewhere.

 

Phuket's hospitals are not overloaded ... at least not yet.  

 

So I guess by transferring a patient from outside of Phuket (such as Bangkok) to Phuket, it frees up a bed in a Bangkok hospital (to assist handling the pandemic there) while Phuket at present has space/resources to handle the patient - albeit obviously this is not without some risk to those doing the transfer (and to Phuket) during the transfer and patient handling process.

 

These are difficult times - with this pandemic raging in Thailand.

[impulse]

If my daughter couldn't find a bed in a dark red zone, I'd hire out an ambulance to bring her closer to home.

It's not as if the delta isn't already in Phuket.  And going from one ambulance to another, then straight into hospital doesn't sound too risky.

 

Still, that ambulance bill must have been eye watering.

 

 

[hotchilli]

21 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Bring back the patients and also the Covid to spread in the provinces... More cases to come...

smart move

Rather dramatic... she was transported safely and taken directly to a hospital facility.