Heavily-flooded hospital in Chaiyaphum temporarily closed after all patients evacuated

[webfact]

 

As it closed until further notice, all the remaining patients in the heavily-flooded Bamnetnarong Hospital, in Thailand’s north-eastern province of Chaiyaphum, were evacuated to a nearby hospital this afternoon.

 

Bamnetnarong Hospital is without electricity, running water and many items of medical equipment, which are kept on the ground floor and are now under more than a metre of floodwater.

 

Officials at the hospital sought help from rescue workers this morning to evacuate the remaining patients, but strong currents had prevented them from getting to the hospital until this afternoon. When the currents eased, the rescue workers approached the hospital in rowing boats to help the patients gathered on the second floor.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/heavily-flooded-hospital-in-chaiyaphum-temporarily-closed-after-all-patients-evacuated/

 

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[RichardColeman]

Hope the fortune telling boss is looking at that picture

[Gottfrid]

Temporarily closed? Guess they will need to dry up the floor and concrete walls for a month, santize och clear from all bacteria for another. Alittle bit more than tomporarily.

[Stargeezr]

Why was this hospital built in a flood area? is there not any higher ground there, 

  Is this an old hospital?  If so why has there not been any flood prevention efforts

been done to protect the building?

Geezer

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

As it closed until further notice, all the remaining patients in the heavily-flooded Bamnetnarong Hospital, in Thailand’s north-eastern province of Chaiyaphum, were evacuated to a nearby hospital this afternoon.

But Prayut promised... no floods.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Hope the fortune telling boss is looking at that picture

I'm sure he'll be organising the rice bag hand-outs as we speak, always makes good PR

[hotchilli]

39 minutes ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

Why was this hospital built in a flood area? is there not any higher ground there, 

  Is this an old hospital?  If so why has there not been any flood prevention efforts

been done to protect the building?

Geezer

Why why why.. this is Thailand that's why.????

[rwill]

7 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

But Prayut promised... no floods.

A few years ago the governor of Bangkok said, "There are no floods, just water that needs to be moved."

[Sydebolle]

The picture by the OP is more than clear, in what kind of situation the entire healthcare in this country is. The selected few get whatever they need, the dirty farang audience had to bark very loud and finally is at the beginning of the queue.

The small fry in the countryside with genuine health issues is killed by bureaucracy; sent from A to B to C to D, back to B and finally ...... they cannot help him.

 

One hospital charges for CD-scan and the patient is sent to the next hospital, which cannot read the CD - back to Square One and redo the job etc. etc. Endless stories on healthcare dramas, better than any soap opera! 

 

Above picture clearly communicates, that for a fraction of construction costs of a health temple in Bangkok (i.e. the facade of the Bumrungrad hospital) the entire land plot (where above hospital is built and subsequently drowned) could have been professionally filled up and piled - prior to the deluge! 

[edwinchester]

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

But Prayut promised... no floods.

No floods in Bangkok, that's all he seems to cares about.

[soalbundy]

I would have thought that any country with a rainy season like Thailand would have all its medical equipment on the first floor not the ground floor.

[Lucky Bones]

4 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

Temporarily closed? Guess they will need to dry up the floor and concrete walls for a month, santize och clear from all bacteria for another. Alittle bit more than tomporarily.

More concrete. Quick, order more concrete from the uncle and the water will go somewhere else. 

If I cannot see the water it is not my problem.

Problem solved. Simples.

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, edwinchester said:

No floods in Bangkok, that's all he seems to cares about.

So far no floods, but history has proven water runs south.

[DefaultName]

1 hour ago, edwinchester said:

No floods in Bangkok, that's all he seems to cares about.

Wait.  Where do you think all that water is going?

[VocalNeal]

2 hours ago, Sydebolle said:

the dirty farang audience had to bark very loud

Exactly where did they bark? I didn't hear them?

[Sydebolle]

6 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

Exactly where did they bark? I didn't hear them?

The vaccinations, initially for Thais first and non-Thais last, saw a complete change overnight. While Thais still wait for whatever they are getting vaccinated, all of a sudden the non-Thai crowd could get vaccinated free of charge in an orderly manner with the vaccination of their choice. But you might possibly have missed that initial complain and overseas pressure put on Thailand. 

In saying that, I also disagree to the present system of preferential treatment of non-Thais. With much less bureaucracy and open vaccination centres on a walk-in against ID basis (Thais = ID card, non-Thais passport) all this rant would be over long time ago already. 

[aussienam]

11 hours ago, rwill said:

A few years ago the governor of Bangkok said, "There are no floods, just water that needs to be moved."

Now that's the sort of excuse that a Chinese CCP official would say.  Didn't realise it happened here too.  Sad. 

 

[unblocktheplanet]

So-called civilised countries see a disease crisis in black mould. This hospital will be a breeding ground.