Day 5/6 Testing Shambles

[KhaoYai]

My apologies if this has already been covered - not had a lot of time for the forum since I got back to Thailand.

 

My experience on the Day 5/6 testing here is that it is a complete shambles - at least it is in Pak Chong.

 

Firstly you are given a pink slip at the airport and told to take it to the hospital - no mention of where to go or that the day you arrive is day 0.  OK so that's not too difficult but maybe a little more problematic for a real tourist.

 

So I go to the Pak Chong Nana Hospital on Day 5 - special testing area in a converted market next door.  Nobody around, finally learned that testing had finished for the day - come back tomorrow at 2.30pm. 'Anyway, you not need it yet, changed to day 7 now', first I'd heard of that. Next day (now day 6) I go at 2.15pm to be told testing had finished for the day - 'doctor go home'. 'You come back tomorrow - 8.00am to 12pm'.  OK, next morning I go back, only to be told that testing would start at 1pm. Back home, few jobs done and go back at 1pm. 'Testing start at 2pm' - I ask if she's sure as I'm getting tired of going back and forth - I'm told not to complain because its free and she's sure. I ask her if she thinks tourists would be happy with this service, free or otherwise - blank look. So I just wait and finally got my test done at 3.15pm.  They took my phone number but nobody called me.  I went back a few days later and found I was negative.

 

As for the Morchana App, what a load of rubbish, the steps I'm asked to take won't complete and it tells me I now have 5 notifications.  Tap on 'notifications' nothing there.

 

Compared to the system when you arrive in Bangkok and a taxi takes you from the airport to the testing centre - tested within 5 minutes, this is a complete shambles.

 

Only one thing I'd say about Bangkok, they don't know the rules.  I asked them if my result would be back within 6 hours - as per the government advice and they told me a minimum of 12 hours. In any case, my result came back after6 1/2 hours and I got out of Dodge before someone I'd been sitting near tested positive.

[internationalism]

scan qr code for hospitals.

but now practically everywhere, the governmental ones and private.

sometimes they send sms, morchana messages.

keep the record for the future, they might turn up in a month or two. As their online reporting is broken.

They send me pcr to email 26h. Doesn't have qr

[KhaoYai]

11 hours ago, internationalism said:

sometimes they send sms, morchana messages.

I get notifications from Morchana almost everyday but when I go to notifications, there's nothing there.