Hospitel

[pontious]

Is treatment for Thais in these completely free.?

[1FinickyOne]

Treatment at your local govt hospital for a Thai should be 10 baht or free... 

 

If it is not your local hospital there will be a charge, though Emergency care is pretty reasonable, even for me as a non-Thai...

 

That has been my experience. 

[richard_smith237]

Hospitel... 

 

Assuming you spelt that correctly - Hospitel, an isolation facility supervised by medical staff housed in a hotel.

 

Both Thai’s and foreigners have to pay for Hospitel isolation. 

 

Thai’s also have the option to go to state isolate (in the field hospitals / isolation facilities). 

 

Realistically - IF symptoms are non-existent to mild, people (Thai’s and foreigners) are just told to stay at home. 

 

Tourists who test positive and have no or mild symptoms and don’t have a home to isolate in may be ‘encouraged’ to stay at a hospitel, but there are stories of tourists refusing, and they just go back to their current hotel and isolate there.

 

 

 

 

[orchis]

you confuse them with the government organised rudimentary quarantine quarters which are free to the Thai.

[bbko]

2 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Both Thai’s and foreigners have to pay for Hospitel isolation. 

A couple of months ago my Thai wife caught covid, mild case nothing serious and was told to either stay home or go to a covid hotel, she didn't want the rest of us here in the house to get infected so she stayed a week at a covid hotel....didn't have to pay a single baht.

Edit, and it was a nice hotel, TV, air con, wifi, it wasn't some field isolation hospital.

Edited April 23, 2022 by bbko

[Sheryl]

12 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Hospitel... 

 

Assuming you spelt that correctly - Hospitel, an isolation facility supervised by medical staff housed in a hotel.

 

Both Thai’s and foreigners have to pay for Hospitel isolation. 

 

Thai’s also have the option to go to state isolate (in the field hospitals / isolation facilities). 

 

Realistically - IF symptoms are non-existent to mild, people (Thai’s and foreigners) are just told to stay at home. 

 

Tourists who test positive and have no or mild symptoms and don’t have a home to isolate in may be ‘encouraged’ to stay at a hospitel, but there are stories of tourists refusing, and they just go back to their current hotel and isolate there.

 

 

 

 

As above, if you actually mean a Hospitel (private hotel facility) and not a hospital or a state-run COVID isolation facility

 

In some locations, government may have arrangements to subsidize stays at some hotels