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BANGKOK (NNT) - The Prime Minister has chaired a meeting with private hospitals on the establishment of more wards and hospitels, with representatives of all 21 hospitals in attendance agreeing that more beds for yellow and red patients are needed, along with more negative pressure rooms.

 

Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha chaired the ZOOM meeting, using it as an opportunity to express his concern that no amount of hospital beds will be sufficient if the number of infections continues to rise.

 

The PM acknowledged that vaccines are critical and indicated his administration is hurrying the importation of more, as well as acquisitions by both the public and private sectors, reiterating the government’s main vaccinations remain AstraZeneca, Sinovac, Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson. He added paperwork is also being processed to acquire Sputnik vaccines from Russia. Alternative vaccines being bought by the private sector include Sinopharm, which is being acquired by Chulabhorn Royal Academy. Moderna vaccines are on schedule to arrive in the fourth quarter and are receiving full support from the state so that they may be distributed nationwide. The same support is being given to the import of Antigen Test Kits.

 

At the end of the meeting, the PM remarked that all sides must be proactive in adding beds, screening for infection and communicating clearly to avoid confusion.

 

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2 hours ago, edwinchester said:

"The PM acknowledged that vaccines are critical and indicated his administration is hurrying the importation of more"

 

Jeez this guy must be held accountable for this farce and the failure to place orders nearly a year ago.

Hopefully

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2 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

What about the exorbitant charges that the private hospitals are profiteering from testing, hospitalization and vaccines? Not discussed??? 

 

2 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Ohh, I dunno.... It looks to me like he got rave reviews from this surly looking bunch....  ????

 

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Plus, this guy seems to be calling in from the Oval Office!

 

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2 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

What about the exorbitant charges that the private hospitals are profiteering from testing, hospitalization and vaccines? Not discussed??? 

Avoided ? The exorbitance is probably deemed compensation for the downturn in elective surgeries for medical tourists ?

Or maybe unmentioned publicly was the question of more State funding to "convert" more covid bed space ?

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5 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Moderna vaccines are on schedule to arrive in the fourth quarter and are receiving full support from the state so that they may be distributed nationwide. The same support is being given to the import of Antigen Test Kits.

Full support for what? a mark up on the already ludicrous price of 350 baht each, a days wages for the poor or not if they are out of work.....feed the family or buy a home covid test kit?

 

Wasnt it also mandated and published a few months back that private hospitals had to test for Covid and treat free of cost for all Thai nationals.......yet a private hospital in my areas is advertising in Thai tests at 3500 baht each and another private hospital is charging 3900 baht....obviously just a misunderstanding !

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6 minutes ago, steven100 said:

The PM is doing what he is suppose to be doing and that is running the country.  

He is concerned about the hospitals and lack of beds for the sick and as such is getting more.

what are you doing besides whinging  ?   ........    lol

Yes he's doing a fine job just look at the stats ????

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4 hours ago, Denim said:

After the meeting he probably dropped his bombshell :

 

' By the way, when those Moderna vaccines you ordered arrive the government must have half of them to give our friends and backers etc. Thanking you in advance for your co operation i this. '

Give? Don't you mean sell them on?

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4 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

Yeah; that'l help, another 'meeting' with a Zero end result, just more hot air.

 

And by the way; nobody want Sputnik any more than they want Sinovac !

If push came to shove I'd rather have Sputnik.  It mixes well with vodka. 

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3 hours ago, steven100 said:

The PM is doing what he is suppose to be doing and that is running the country.  

He is concerned about the hospitals and lack of beds for the sick and as such is getting more.

what are you doing besides whinging  ?   ........    lol

If he hadn't been so incompetent he'd have ordered much more vaccines last year instead of recognising the shortfall only now and he would have learned from other countries experience last year and earlier this year and made sure Thailand had enough medical equipment and supplies so that Thai citizens weren't left to die at home and on the streets.

What am I doing personally? Trying to influence as many Thais as I can to vote this Govt out of office at the earliest opportunity.

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11 hours ago, edwinchester said:

"The PM acknowledged that vaccines are critical and indicated his administration is hurrying the importation of more"

 

Jeez this guy must be held accountable for this farce and the failure to place orders nearly a year ago.

Thailand had escaped covid, so we all thought, there were no cases. 

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6 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Thailand had escaped covid, so we all thought, there were no cases. 

There wasn't a hope in hell that Thailand was going to escape covid last year and continue as though nothing was going to happen. To do so was delusional, wilfully ignorant, at best plain misinformed. There was the effects the epidemic had on countries the whole world over that should have been learned from and preparations made. Instead Prayut chose to do very little and now the ordinary citizens are victims of the unfolding tragedy.

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