Screenings and field hospital construction stepped up

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Field hospitals are being set up nationwide to handle the growing number of COVID-19 patients with the authorities in Bangkok ramping up proactive testing.

 

Ratchatewi district office in Bangkok, cooperating with Public Health Service Center 2 at Wat Makkasan, has carried out proactive screening for COVID-19 along Rama 6 road, finding a majority of people from local communities such as Baan Krua Nua and Wat Boromniwas Community volunteering to be tested. The effort received assistance from royal volunteers and will continue until August 8.

 

Meanwhile, Nakhon Si Thammarat Governor Kraisorn Wisitwong chaired the unveiling of the province’s tenth field hospital, set up in a royal disaster relief center in Pak Nakhon sub-district. The site is to take in local green patients as well as those returning from other provinces. The 100-bed site is properly zoned and has all needed facilities.

 

Similarly, Chantaburi Governor Suthi Thongyaem has visited and encouraged local officials, soldiers and volunteers erecting a new field hospital in the province. The contributors worked day and night for nine days to create a 700-bed facility that is later to be expanded to 1,000 beds if necessary. The site is to receive the areas moderately affected green and yellow patients, freeing hospital beds for red patients.

 

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"Field hospitals are being set up nationwide to handle the growing number of COVID-19 patients with the authorities in Bangkok ramping up proactive testing"

 

Strange relationship - we need more beds as we are testing more - not we need more beds because we have more with Covid. The logic in that sentence seems to mean that there are a lot of unrecorded covid cases out there.