Siriraj Says All Beds For Critical Covid Patients Full

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SIRIRAJ Piyamaharajkarun Hospital posted a message on its Facebook page yesterday (May 26) that all beds for critical Covid patients are now fully occupied with the emergency department also overflowing thus it cannot accept any more patients, TV Channel 7 and Naewna newspaper said this morning.

 

The hospital’s emergency department is still awaiting referral patients and for this reason cannot accommodate additional Covid-19 patients, the message said, while apologising for the inconvenience caused.

 

Siriraj Piyamaharajkarun Hospital is a hospital operated by the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital of Mahidol University. It is located in Bangkok on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River, adjacent to Siriraj Hospital and opposite Thammasat University.

 

Earlier Dr. Yong Poovorawan, head of the Centre of Excellence in Clinical Virology at the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, said in a Facebook post that a spike in Covid infection has occurred as expected with the start of the new school year and the rainy season when seasonal respiratory diseases rage.

 

by TNR Staff 

Top image: Dr. Yong Poovorawan. Photo: INN News

 

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[Pink Mist]

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[Taboo2]

And?  Stop the hype.

 

 

[vivananahuahin]

The flu age.

[billd766]

Wow. One hospital in the whole of Bangkok cannot accept any more critical Covid patients.

 

Is it the only hospital in Bangkok that deals with Covid patients?

 

It must be a disaster of epidemic proportions. Don't panic anybody. The MoPH under its minister, Anutin will find a way forward. Even if he actually has to do something himself

 

SIRIRAJ Piyamaharajkarun Hospital posted a message on its Facebook page yesterday (May 26) that all beds for critical Covid patients are now fully occupied with the emergency department also overflowing thus it cannot accept any more patients, TV Channel 7 and Naewna newspaper said this morning.

[hotchilli]

One prestigious hospital Covid treatment facilities now full, how many beds is that?

How many Covid facilities are available throughout Bangkok?

Stop the hype.

[Danderman123]

2 hours ago, Taboo2 said:

And?  Stop the hype.

 

 

When hospitals are full, it's not hype. 

 

It seems that you simply don't believe that Covid is a derious disease.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Bangkok had 466 NEW COVID hospitalizations last week (May 14-20), out of 2,632 reported nationwide.

 

And cumulatively for May 14-20, the Thai MoPH reported 401 COVID patients hospitalized in serious condition nationwide, with 226 requiring intubation because they're unable to breathe otherwise...

 

Those tallies for a week ago were up from comparable numbers of 322 and 163 for the prior period two weeks ago of May 7-13.

 

In other words, the nationwide tally of COVID patients hospitalized in serious condition increased by 79 just in a one-week period, and the number of COVID intubations increased by 63 in the same one week period.

 

When you're adding hundreds of new COVID hospitalizations every week in Bangkok, it's not going to take very long before the medical infrastructure begins to get strained.

 

Translation of latest MoPH chart on new COVID hospitalizations ranked by province, May 14-20:

 

 

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

 

And the latest weekly nationwide COVID recap report for May 14-20:

 

 

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

 

 

[proton]

Presumably most have had the vaccines 

[onthedarkside]

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[TallGuyJohninBKK]

59 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

One prestigious hospital Covid treatment facilities now full, how many beds is that?

How many Covid facilities are available throughout Bangkok?

Stop the hype.

 

One public hospital, one of the main and most prestigious ones in the country, publicly posted it's being overrun by COVID patients...

 

Unfortunately, the Thai MoPH no longer publicly reports on COVID patient / hospital utilization rates as they did in the past.

 

There very well could be multiple other hospitals in BKK and other high caseload areas that are experiencing the same COVID patient surges... but just not publicly talking about it.

 

The government's central public health system isn't usually particularly keen to be publicly admitting they can't actually handle the patient demands they're facing.

 

 

[BenStark]

8 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

One public hospital, one of the main and most prestigious ones in the country, publicly posted it's being overrun by COVID patients...

Nope, one hospital out of the many in Bangkok posted that their beds for CRITICAL patients are full.

 

You posted that there are 401 critical patients NATIONWIDE, that is spread over 76 provinces of which each have multiple hospitals.

 

Maybe Siriraj should add 3 beds and double their capacity, or stop the scaremongering

[chalawaan]

Most news stories must be read in full. 

 

The boring facts aka the truth, usually starts about ⅔ in. 

 

In the linked story, the pattern is clear, there's really no need for the concern that the story would at first glance suggest.

 

As with everything in life, do your homework, read the story critically (especially if it is in your favourite newspaper) and actively watch for the actual facts of the matter to appear very near the end of the piece. Nine times out of ten the facts bear little resemblance to the headline that draws us in. 

Edited May 27, 2023 by chalawaan

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

11 minutes ago, BenStark said:

You posted that there are 401 critical patients NATIONWIDE, that is spread over 76 provinces of which each have multiple hospitals.

Which is relatively meaningless, because the demand for COVID serious condition hospital beds isn't spread as an average across the whole nation, but instead, is occurring mostly in a few provinces where the COVID hospitalization numbers are the highest.

 

Provinces including Bangkok, Chonburi, Samut Sakhon, Surat Thani, Songkhla and a few others.

 

Having spare, unused COVID beds in Chiang Mai isn't going to do much good for COVID hospitalizations in Bangkok.

 

[Airalee]

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

One public hospital, one of the main and most prestigious ones in the country, publicly posted it's being overrun by COVID patients...

 

No, it didn’t.
 

The report was made by a much smaller (1/6th the size) private offshoot of Siriraj,  named SIRIRAJ Piyamaharajkarun Hospital

[Bday Prang]

1 hour ago, Airalee said:

No, it didn’t.
 

The report was made by a much smaller (1/6th the size) private offshoot of Siriraj,  named SIRIRAJ Piyamaharajkarun Hospital

              According to their website its a private hospital  and according to Wiki it caters for High income  patients .with only 345 beds in total and 20 different medical departments there surely cannot be that many beds set aside for Covid cases. 

           According to the OP the emergency department  are "awaiting referral patients"  so how critical can their need be if they are on some sort of waiting list?

            In my admittedly simplistic view, people genuinely requiring  emergency treatment need it there and then, and would be taken  elsewhere, presumably next door to the "Real" and much larger (6x) Siriraj hospital

             The headline and some of the comments again seem designed to cause unnecessary concern   why would that be?

Edited May 27, 2023 by Bday Prang

[billd766]

3 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

When hospitals are full, it's not hype. 

 

It seems that you simply don't believe that Covid is a serious disease.

But it is only ONE hospital claiming that, and not every hospital in Bangkok or in Thailand.

[billd766]

2 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Which is relatively meaningless, because the demand for COVID serious condition hospital beds isn't spread as an average across the whole nation, but instead, is occurring mostly in a few provinces where the COVID hospitalization numbers are the highest.

 

Provinces including Bangkok, Chonburi, Samut Sakhon, Surat Thani, Songkhla and a few others.

 

Having spare, unused COVID beds in Chiang Mai isn't going to do much good for COVID hospitalizations in Bangkok.

 

But patients CAN be transferred between hospitals, and I am sure there are hospitals much closer than Chiang Mai that DO have empty Covid facilities.

[sungod]

1 hour ago, Bday Prang said:

              According to their website its a private hospital  and according to Wiki it caters for High income  patients .with only 345 beds in total and 20 different medical departments there surely cannot be that many beds set aside for Covid cases. 

           According to the OP the emergency department  are "awaiting referral patients"  so how critical can their need be if they are on some sort of waiting list?

            In my admittedly simplistic view, people genuinely requiring  emergency treatment need it there and then, and would be taken  elsewhere, presumably next door to the "Real" and much larger (6x) Siriraj hospital

             The headline and some of the comments again seem designed to cause unnecessary concern   why would that be?

From a source we cannot quote on here, Siriraj issued a clarification that the situation in the public side was normal and controllable, they have not added any COVID beds as they did at the peak.

 

Just a little more context.

 

 

[sungod]

4 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

When hospitals are full, it's not hype. 

But they are not full.

[Bday Prang]

5 minutes ago, sungod said:

From a source we cannot quote on here, Siriraj issued a clarification that the situation in the public side was normal and controllable, they have not added any COVID beds as they did at the peak.

 

Just a little more context.

 

 

Well it seems as is usual with this topic  the truth must never be allowed to spoil a good panicky headline ! 

[Bday Prang]

3 minutes ago, sungod said:

But they are not full.

now now don't  go spoiling  it again  ????

[Airalee]

1 hour ago, Bday Prang said:

              According to their website its a private hospital  and according to Wiki it caters for High income  patients .with only 345 beds in total and 20 different medical departments there surely cannot be that many beds set aside for Covid cases. 

           According to the OP the emergency department  are "awaiting referral patients"  so how critical can their need be if they are on some sort of waiting list?

            In my admittedly simplistic view, people genuinely requiring  emergency treatment need it there and then, and would be taken  elsewhere, presumably next door to the "Real" and much larger (6x) Siriraj hospital

             The headline and some of the comments again seem designed to cause unnecessary concern   why would that be?

Yeah…I was just looking at their website.  It’s quite a nice hospital and very niche too.   Definitely not representative of a typical hospital here in Thailand.   The suites are huge!   Nice selection of restaurants, herb gardens, Ayurvedic treatment facilities, a museum…it even has an Apple products distributor and some sort of “prototype” gourmet grocery store.  Beautiful waterfront views too!
 

It’s a hospital for the (very) rich where the (assumably) high prices paid by the patients help to subsidize the government portion of Siriraj.

 

Interesting setup.

 

I’ll bet it’s very expensive and hopefully won’t be used as an example of what it might cost if someone ends up in the hospital with Covid.

[Paul Henry]

Covid increase all because adults want to play childrens games and splash water over everyone and get up close in other peoples space. Time to put common sense over tradition!

[BangkokReady]

19 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

When hospitals are full, it's not hype. 

When multiple hospitals aren't full and people choose to write "hospitals" in the plural, then that is hype.

 

Think about what you are doing.

 

Don't be part of the hype, be part of the truth. 

[BangkokReady]

19 hours ago, hotchilli said:

One prestigious hospital Covid treatment facilities now full, how many beds is that?

How many Covid facilities are available throughout Bangkok?

Stop the hype.

Exactly.  How many cases, how many beds, and do they need to be in those beds or are they being admitted with "flu like symptoms"?

 

These guys appear to have a very strong agenda that they want to push.  Trying to stay relevant or hoping for more lockdowns?

Edited May 28, 2023 by BangkokReady

[billd766]

5 hours ago, Paul Henry said:

Covid increase all because adults want to play childrens games and splash water over everyone and get up close in other peoples space. Time to put common sense over tradition!

Rubbish.

[Bday Prang]

On 5/27/2023 at 12:23 PM, Taboo2 said:

And?  Stop the hype.

 

On 5/27/2023 at 2:58 PM, Danderman123 said:

When hospitals are full, it's not hype. 

 

It seems that you simply don't believe that Covid is a derious disease.

               Siriraj Says All Beds For Critical Covid Patients Full

                 

 

                   The article is actually not  referring to Siriraj Hospital , which happens to be the largest hospital in Thailand and one of the busiest medical centers in SE Asia  

                   The article is actually referring to a much smaller private hospital which is actually called 

 

                     SIRIRAJ Piyamaharajkarun Hospital  can you really not see what they did there ?.

                  It is clearly hype, Just one relatively small but rather exclusive private hospital has reported that an undisclosed number of beds reserved for critically ill covid patients are now fully occupied however no numbers were mentioned. Of beds available or Covid patients occupying them 

                  It also goes on to say that the reason for this is an overflow from the emergency department but conspicuously does not mention if this overflow includes additional Covid patient or not 

                  In fact it appears that it is technically not full yet but awaiting the arrival of further patients who have not arrived yet,  It does not specify that these are Covid patients either 

,

 Nobody is saying that covid is not serious,  but just because people do not fall for the "hype" everytime, and dare to call out deliberately misleading headlines  does not make them  "covid deniers"

 

                  

[swerve]

Lots of covid spreading in Phuket.  I got again this weekend.

[scottiejohn]

17 minutes ago, swerve said:

Lots of covid spreading in Phuket.  I got again this weekend.

A bit more info would help rather than a "throw away statement of "I got again this weekend"!

e.g.

What Strain

With or without previous vaccines

With or without face masks

What sort of circumstances

How many times,

How severe

Home or hospital treatment

etc?