Appeal to Anutin: Doctors are working 72 hours straight endangering their own health

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Picture: Thai Rath

 

A heartfelt plea by overworked doctors has been sent to Thailand's health minister and DPM Anutin Charnvirakul.

 

The medics have also called for an emergency meeting on Thursday.

 

The Facebook post by the union that oversees the welfare of the nation's doctors said that medical practitioners were working 72 hours without a break. 

 

They were the frontline of help to the Thai public but their own health was suffering due to unreasonable demands.

 

They were exhausted, missing their families and in need of rest.

 

The union proposed meeting with Anutin at 1.30 pm this Thursday, reported Thai Rath. 

 

The media had a file picture of Anutin but had clearly not contacted him for his response to the concerns of the union. 

 

Anutin has been especially busy recently promoting medicinal marijuana, notes ASEAN NOW. 

 

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[engamann]

To help overworked doctors would actualy be real work , cant have that when you to busy to make you self filty ritch from ganja.

[RichardColeman]

maybe a good start here - and in the rest of the world - would be to make ALL education fees for studying medicine all returned to the student once they had committed 10 years to the nations medical needs. I imagine knowing that in my own NHS the studying student getting the hefty comeback to help with the mortgage would be a hefty incentive to study medicine rather than some useless mamby pamby art and socieolgy degree 

[Alcat]

Here in Australia we are in a similar position. All staff are overworked, not getting any time off, and shortages due to Covid. Nurses are quitting in large numbers. In todays paper there was an article about a country town up north where a doctor is being offered A$2700 per week to work there ! Our health service is crumbling.

[ikke1959]

If doctors hve to work so much there is a need that there are regulations to help these people. How can a doctor do his job if he is burned out??.. So another failure of the health department 

[Celsius]

1 hour ago, Alcat said:

Here in Australia we are in a similar position. All staff are overworked, not getting any time off, and shortages due to Covid. Nurses are quitting in large numbers. In todays paper there was an article about a country town up north where a doctor is being offered A$2700 per week to work there ! Our health service is crumbling.

Isn't this a normal salary for a doctor?

[Burma Bill]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

medical practitioners were working 72 hours without a break. 

Oh really! When I lived in Thailand, my local Government Hospital always closed from noon to 1pm for lunch break. If I had not seen a doctor by noon, I was told to come back to the clinic (diabetic in my case) after 1pm. The diabetic clinic was closed completely during weekends.

[BKKTRAVELER]

Well, he is not a doctor so he probably won't share their concerns..

 

All jokes aside, this has been happening even before Covid and in all parts of the world. The world overall healthcare system is melting and medical staff have had enough of being exploited until they burn out.

 

Maybe, just maybe... Governments should start thinking about the root of the problem. Medical studies are hard, long AND expensive. It is often that doctors come from well to do families. Let's make medical studies more approachable (lower school fees, accommodations assistance and plenty of other things can be done to support medical students). Yes, it will cost money. But, not only is it worth it, it is paramount.

[WHansen]

Respect and appreciation for all medical staff that have been on the front line

helping those that have been taken sick from Covid in the last couple of years.

It's been chaotic for them.

[MrJ2U]

6 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

Oh really! When I lived in Thailand, my local Government Hospital always closed from noon to 1pm for lunch break. If I had not seen a doctor by noon, I was told to come back to the clinic (diabetic in my case) after 1pm. The diabetic clinic was closed completely during weekends.

Definitely a shortage of qualified doctors in Sakon Nakhon.

 

It's a hospital in name only.  We usually head to Udon Thani if one of us is ill. 

 

 There's no way Sakon Nakhon Hospital could manage a big wave. 

[mania]

They fear monger the Thai citizens into a total mess

then complain when they go to the doctors for the slightest sniffle

 

If the doctors want a break get rid of Anutin completely

Educate the Thai's when to actually seek medical attention instead of flooding hospitals needlessly

[Andycoops]

He wouldn't care if they worked 172 hours straight as he's only interested in himself.

[hotchilli]

17 hours ago, webfact said:

Anutin has been especially busy recently promoting medicinal marijuana,

Profits before people... 

[jacko45k]

17 hours ago, Alcat said:

Here in Australia we are in a similar position. All staff are overworked, not getting any time off, and shortages due to Covid. Nurses are quitting in large numbers. In todays paper there was an article about a country town up north where a doctor is being offered A$2700 per week to work there ! Our health service is crumbling.

You will have to be more liberal and bring more in from the Philippines and India.