Thailand’s vaccine director apologises for ‘slow, inadequate’ vaccine rollout, promises to join COVAX

[inThailand]

Classic Thailand....

 

We'll do it our way, screw common sense, safety or standards. Oh, we can get free vaccines, were in now! 

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

“I apologise to the people that the National Vaccine Institute has not managed to procure a sufficient amount of vaccines for the unforeseen situation, although we have tried our best

Prayut and Anutin should both step down, both refused to join Covax last year, seemingly happy to just side with Sinovac and eventually the AZ programme.

Evern blocking the private procurement of other vaccines when it was obvious they were needed.

Both have failed to deliver the vaccines that the nation needs.

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, inThailand said:

Classic Thailand....

 

We'll do it our way, screw common sense, safety or standards. Oh, we can get free vaccines, were in now! 

Perhaps the last sentence would be better as...

Oh, we have exponentially rising death and infection numbers now but at the time it was the right decision.......

[Caspersfriend]

Being, possibly, the very last country to join COVAX they will get the leftovers of the leftovers.

 

A load more Chinese vaccines!

[4MyEgo]

6 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

It's a pity Prayuth didn't apologise to his citizens yesterday, instead of trying to pass the Covid blame onto some of them ! 

It just show what kind of person he really is.

This guy is the scape goat for you know who, make no mistake, that guy who blamed everybody else for his leadership <deleted> up's or lack of leadership for a better word, would never fall on his sword because he is simply a coward, so find a scapegoat he did.

[JAS21]

And now, some woman, wants to press charges against various personalities who have suggested that maybe this governments performance has been a little inept….

[mtls2005]

2 minutes ago, Caspersfriend said:

Being, possibly, the very last country to join COVAX they will get the leftovers of the leftovers.

 

A load more Chinese vaccines!

 

You wish.

 

But I do have some Sputnik V on the shelf. And I'll throw in the undercoating for free.

 

 

[Spock]

1 hour ago, TheFishman1 said:

All these people in the government involved with the vaccine rollout should be ashamed they lied they cheated and they stalled it’s been over a year and the rollout is a total disgrace to this government TIT

It can also happen in developed countries too like Australia where only 11% of the population is vaccinated. Like Thailand, the AZ is manufactured locally, but unlike Thailand, people are afraid of blood clots etc, hence much of it is being exported. Nowhere near enough Pfizer was ordered. At least here there is some transparency around the reasons for the shortfall.

[thailand49]

The government is so top heavy it wouldn't be hard to just pull one of the crowd on any given day and say you have a nice head of hair nicely dye monthly and pull their string as to what needs to be said today.  Several years ago I read an article from a MP and a survey followed thereafter that telling a white lie can be good for people that goes allow with apologizing it gives people the sense that the government is on top of the situation so down worry sit back thus the saying " mai pen rai "????

[jerrymahoney]

25 minutes ago, thailand49 said:

on this board

That's funny.

[Card]

The head of a vaccine institute did not see virus variants coming? OMG, variants are what viruses do. It's the first thing you learn at school when they tell you about viruses! It's Viruses 101, you d***<deleted>.

[Seeall]

4 hours ago, wasabi said:

He deflected blame but otherwise a surprisingly frank acknowledgement. However they are about a year short and the price to pay in money and lives will be high.

until its his money / family he dont give a s11tt, same goes for all the other gov freeloding toads......

[Pravda]

25 minutes ago, StevieAus said:

You must be going to the wrong place for treatment.

In the years that I have lived in Thailand the treatment myself and my family have received has been excellent especially through the private system.

 

Please let the forum know which hiso private hospital you got vaccine for yourself and your family.

 

 

[Bkk Brian]

23 minutes ago, nickmondo said:

of course mutations were expected and predicted.

what a load of codswallop

A blatant lie while giving an insincere apology

[BestB]

Prayut and Anutin finally found a scapegoat and someone to blame who in turn can not point fingers where it should but still looking ????

[Spock]

36 minutes ago, StevieAus said:

I think there are many on this forum and perhaps you as well who take the view that all comments have to be critical and that a balanced view is not allowed.

From some of the posts I read about many different subjects one would think that that Thailand is hell and the rest of the world Utopia.

We know that Thailand has handled the situation appallingly but it has been far from perfect elsewhere.

 I take my own country Australia where despite having sufficient vaccines the handling of the Covid situation has been disgraceful and that’s in an advanced developed country.

I often wonder why if people are so critical of everything in Thailand they want to live here.

Big difference between Thailand and Australia is that as soon as there are a few cases in any city in the latter country, people are locked down till the virus is eliminated, however long that takes. The reason for that action is partly the lack of vaccinated people. Australia does not have enough vaccine - far from it. Like Thailand they failed to order believing their locally produced AZ would suffice. Then came the blood clot stories and many people decided they would not take it. The government banned it for under 60's then reneged when Delta announced itself, but by then many people had made up their minds.  Now the country waits on its Pfizer orders to limp into the country. People are highly critical of the Federal government, but at least due to isolating the country and lockdowns, there are only a handful of cases. The same cannot be said of Thailand regarding action taken to squash the virus. It has been allowed to spread rapidly.

[kcpattaya]

Nuff said...

 

[crazykopite]

The horse has bolted Thailand is at the back of the line they had the choice to join at the beginning of the pandemic and refused why is the vaccine director having to  apologise I don’t think he had or has the power to make such an important decision has the PM stitched him up as one of the fall guys 

[MrJ2U]

Just in time:

 

Gavi signs agreements with Sinopharm and Sinovac for immediate supply to COVAX.

 

[Nanaplaza666]

2 hours ago, jerrymahoney said:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/03/942303736/how-rich-countries-are-hoarding-the-worlds-vaccines-in-charts

 

"When the pandemic began, rich countries went on a buying spree. Some have even called it "panic buying." These countries started making agreements with pharmaceutical companies to purchase experimental COVID-19 vaccines, even before clinical trials had finished. The details of many such agreements are not public, NPR has reported."

And that's why there are some countries now that have to many vaccimes amd are considering to throw them away destroy them . Is this to blame on the hoarding mode of those countries(or just being safe because you can never have to many) of these countries . Or is it to blame on the greed of the vaccine producers that simply don't care who buys them as long as their paid for(while they knew there where much more countries needing them and in the beginning of this pandemic it was the deal that there wouldn't be any winnings to be made) . So who's fold is this i ask myself . The vaccine program here in Thailand is a !@#$ joke , but the worldwide program is not much fairer and better .  

[Cake Monster]

It really is not the place of this NVI Director Mr. Nakorn to apologise to the Thai people over the failure to procure enough Vaccines.

All the apologies should be coming from the Minister of Public Health Mr Anutin, whos department is supposed to take take of the population.

Vaccine procurement would have, and should have, fallen squarely at his door. A fairly simple task one would have thought.

Or, is the entire Ministry not to be trusted in this Procurement process.

There are so many sub committees and panels to oversee this process, along with others to oversee them Etc, that the whole process seems to be flawed, and time consuming.

Time is the one luxury this Government do not have

It really is time that the PM gathered some people around him with some nounce.

 

[bluesea]

They have had over 12 months to make this decission, it has taken the Delta Mutant & Dead Bodies in the street for these Complacement people to act.

In this world you get noting for nothing and you also have to earn respect and this Current govenment has excelled on both those points..

[Surasak]

There used to be a kids game years ago called,  'Pass the parcel'. I have to say these OLD kids are quite good at it.

[head bender]

Why next year what's wrong with this week or today?  Fool

[dlclark97]

'The mutations (of the virus) were something that could not be predicted'  Why not?  The flu for example and others is why we have annual booster shots to counter the recent mutations.  History alone should have indicated mutations would be coming.

[Chongalulu]

1 hour ago, jerrymahoney said:

Because it isn't up to you.

The less that’s 'up to you' can only be a good thing. I see you’re a fan of incompetence being allowed to continue reproducing- is that what you relied on for your own employment?

[ifmu]

4 hours ago, jerrymahoney said:

So whatever the gent may have done wrong or insufficient in the past, why not just sit back and let him do his job as best he can now. Because it is HIS job, not yours.

put pressure on the slow response  ... nothing gets done till it gets on social media   

[Cake Monster]

4 hours ago, jerrymahoney said:

So whatever the gent may have done wrong or insufficient in the past, why not just sit back and let him do his job as best he can now. Because it is HIS job, not yours.

And therein lies the main issue

Its not his job.

The Guy is purely a scapegoat for all the incompetence and sheer stupidity of all the other Organizations before his in the Procurement Chain.

[ABCbangkok]

Thailand the land of ‘sorry’. When anything goes wrong, the first word is ‘sorry’ as if that somehow, magically, makes things all better.

 

If he is so sorry why doesn’t he quit? Why doesn’t he admit, “I’m not the person for this job”. Does an apology somehow now make him qualified to carry on?

 

That he makes the observation: “mutations of the virus were unforeseen” places him in a class of stupidity we’ve never seen before.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Seeall]

30 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

A blatant lie while giving an insincere apology

just like a poli