Srinagarind Hospital overwhelmed by 830% rise in cancer patients

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Photo courtesy of Bangkok Post

 

By Puntid Tantivangphaisal

 

Srinagarind Hospital in Khon Kaen called on the National Health Security Office (NHSO) to address the overwhelming demand for cancer treatment, following a staggering 830% increase in patients seeking care under the Cancer Anywhere (CA) programme.

 

Hospital director Somsak Tiamkao yesterday, December 17, highlighted that the facility is struggling to cope with the significant rise in cancer patients referred through the NHSO’s CA programme. This surge has placed immense pressure on the hospital’s resources and staff.

 

Since the introduction of the programme, the number of cancer patients at Srinagarind Hospital soared by 830%.

 

In addition to being a medical treatment centre, the hospital also provides training for medical students. However, the influx of cancer patients has created significant challenges, particularly concerning staffing and the hospital’s capacity to both educate students and maintain healthcare services.

 

Somsak noted that the hospital is unable to increase its number of beds, doctors, nurses, or medical staff, which poses a risk to maintaining high medical standards.

 

 

Previously, a doctor could complete their morning patient diagnoses and then focus on teaching or research activities. Now, due to the increased workload, medical professionals are occupied well into the evening, reported Bangkok Post.

 

“We need to have a serious discussion with the NHSO. The programme must follow clear guidelines and procedures set by the NHSO. We are not refusing treatment, but we want cancer care to be standardised across all hospitals.”

 

The hospital director emphasised that all hospitals are equipped to deliver such care.

 

“The NHSO needs to discuss, listen, and help solve these issues instead of letting the situation escalate like a ‘broken dam.’”

 

Source: The Thaiger

-- 2024-12-18

 

 

[phetphet]

The cancer cases must already have been there. The program has just brought them to the fore.

 

I wonder what the main causes are here in Thailand. Smoking? Excessive use of chemicals in farming? Pollution? Additives in food? Deep frying everything?

[Carsten07]

Cancers and excess mortality is on the rise, steeply, in most countries that did what in 2021?!

 

There is an elephant in the room.

[NativeBob]

23 minutes ago, phetphet said:

I wonder what the main causes are here in Thailand. Smoking? Excessive use of chemicals in farming? Pollution? Additives in food? Deep frying everything?

All of those plus late diagnostics 

[dinsdale]

55 minutes ago, Carsten07 said:

Cancers and excess mortality is on the rise, steeply, in most countries that did what in 2021?!

 

There is an elephant in the room.

Turbo cancer is being called a conspiracy theory. Interesting. Covid being not zoonotic and a lab leak from gain of function research at the Wuhan lab was called and still is by some a conspiracy theory. It's now seeming there is a high likelihood that this was the case.  

[BarBoy]

is it really any wonder when the air is unfit to breathe for a good chunk of the year??

[impulse]

14 minutes ago, BarBoy said:

is it really any wonder when the air is unfit to breathe for a good chunk of the year??

 

But that's not new.  The question is, what's causing the huge increase?  Is it an increase in patients, better diagnostics, or are more of them gravitating toward that hospital?