Klang Hospital’s wards full of COVID-19 patients, anti-viral drugs still being provided

[snoop1130]

 

The 8-bed ICU for severe COVID-19 cases requiring ventilators and the 30-bed cohort ward at the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA)’s General Hospital, also known as Klang Hospital, is now fully occupied, but the hospital is still providing medical services to asymptomatic COVID-19 out-patients and patients with mild symptoms, according to the hospital’s director, Dr. Kutcharin Jiamsripong.

 

Besides the in-patients, she told Thai PBS today (Tuesday) that the hospital has been visited by almost 300 people each day who came for COVID-19 tests and medication, including Favipiravir, Molnupiravir or others in accordance with their symptoms.

 

She explained that Klang Hospital is the main general hospital, under Bangkok’s administration, that is receiving patients transferred from other hospitals also operated by the administration, adding that the hospital is capable of handling the situation.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/klang-hospitals-wards-full-of-covid-19-patients-anti-viral-drugs-still-being-provided/

 

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[RichardColeman]

A more detailed report of exactly 'who' is in ICU would be more helpful - age, pre-conditions smokers, heart disease issues etc. 

 

And if its anything like the UK 40% of cases up are probably caught actually IN the hospital - did they go in for one thing and get to ICU with another ? 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

According to the Ministry of Public Health's data, today's count of 2,886 "official" new COVID cases (a vast undercount to reality), the 11,271 people currently hospitalized because of COVID, and the 851 currently hospitalized in serious condition because of COVID all have reached their highest levels in the past month.

 

The 851 number of serious condition COVID patients has risen 37.5 percent from the 619 recorded just one month ago. Fortunately, at least thus far, the number of daily new deaths the government is attributing to COVID has not yet been showing the same upward trend, and has continued to bounce around the 20 per day level.

 

See the MoPH charts below:

 

MoPH's daily update for Wednesday:

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/607115640906764/?type=3

 

MoPH's past month daily tallies for key COVID indicators:

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/?dashboard=30-days

 

Edited July 20, 2022 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Granet]

The 8 bed ICU, and the 30 bed something something are at / near capacity!

OMG! WE MUST TAKE ACTION!!

Would have been something said about 12-18 months ago.

Doesn't Buddha teach patience?  

It's gonna be ok.