Bangkok launches home vaccination service for the bed-ridden and vulnerable

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The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is now offering an in-home vaccination service for bed-ridden patients and other vulnerable people in frail health, who are unable to leave their homes and are not yet vaccinated.

 

Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang said, in his Facebook post today (Friday), that many bed-ridden patients and elderly people, who rarely leave their homes, have mostly been infected by others in their families who do go out.

 

“So, home is not a safe haven from COVID-19 anymore,” said the governor, adding that vaccinating these people can help reduce infections in Bangkok and the city’s administration has deployed numerous teams to several communities and high-risk areas to provide free vaccinations.

 

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[RichardColeman]

My wife got her vaccination yesterday. Had to travel from Pattaya to Bangkok. Vaccination was arranged by the kindergarten school. I guess schools pushing for parents get jab to open

[it is what it is]

 

shouldn't these people have been part of the first cohort to be vaccinated? at least they're been vaccinated now i guess.

[nausea]

That, indeed, was a hole thst needed to be plugged - not from a spreading perspective (unlikely the bed-ridden/housebound are gonna be spreading it around much), but certainly from a death rate/severe symptoms one, as I guess a lot of these guys would be in a vulnerable category.

[Gottfrid]

After this long time? Horrible! This should have been something that would have been in the first stage of planning and taken care of as soon as the first vaccines arrived.

[Emdog]

They should have similar program in rural areas. Can't see frail riding on back of motorcycle for hour or so each way to get vax

[Stargeezr]

Too bad that they are too late for 2 of my Bangkok relatives. One is dead and the other is in hospital on oxygen now

and it does not look good for her. Their son is also sick, but he did have his 2 shots and is expected to make it

okay.  I hope that this program helps a lot of the older Thais and expats that are home bound.

Geezer