Hospitals of the Future

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(Photo courtesy of Ramathibodi hospital)

 

Despite the disruptions COVID-19 has caused in the way healthcare is delivered in many countries, there are reasons to be optimistic about the future.

 

We have learned a great deal from the recent pandemic but perhaps the most important lesson is the necessity to rethink how healthcare is delivered to the people. One interesting insight derived from the experience, according to Sharon Zaide, a medical doctor, is that when healthcare systems are challenged, the need to adopt and accept modern forms of technology becomes more prominent.”

 

Facilities overwhelmed

 

During the latest outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant in the middle of 2021, Thailand’s health ministry sounded the alarm about Bangkok’s lack of hospital beds and isolation facilities.

 

Even the Health Ministry’s Director General of the Department of Medical Services, Somsak Akkasip, was forced to admit in a news conference that “We do not have enough beds in hospitals. Even in big hospitals, intensive care units are filled.”

 

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Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/hospitals-of-the-future/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-02-19

 

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[mahtin]

Whilst reading the linked article at PBS I noticed this:

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/story-of-thai-policeman-in-exile-and-victims-of-human-trafficking-revealed-in-parliament/

but there seems to be no reporting of it here on Asean Now.

 

Extract:

Paween said that he had been persecuted and treated unfairly by the Royal Thai Police and the government, as he insisted that the story, as told in parliament by Rangsiman yesterday, is true.

The former police officer said he feels that he has only received half of the acknowledgement that he deserves adding that, had he been allowed to complete his investigation “several more big fish” would have been caught and brought to justice.

Rangsiman raised the issue directly with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, but the prime minister dismissed the issue and moved on to other matters, prompting the Move Forward MP to call the prime minister a “savage”.

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The reality has not changed; That being there have never been, are not enough beds and those to man and treat mass casualty events. Never been otherwise so no surprises there. Curious about the proliferation (to whatever degree) of narratives that somehow import this should not be the case.