Protest-casualty plan readied; 10 teams of doctors, evacuation areas prepared, centred at Govt House

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Protest-casualty plan readied
The Nation

10 teams of doctors, evacuation areas prepared, centred at Govt House

BANGKOK: -- TEN TEAMS of doctors and 20 rescue units have been prepared to provide emergency medical aid to any protesters injured during today's massive rally, a senior public health official said yesterday.

The emergency medical plan was announced at Government House following a meeting of senior public health officials with representatives from the Erawan Emergency Medical Centre of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, the Thai Red Cross, Vajira Hospital, Ramathibodi Hospital, and Phra Mongkut Klao Hospital.

The plan was announced by Dr Narong Apikulwanit, director of the forward medical operations centre for political rallies.

Narong said the meeting agreed to change its operation plan to cope with the rally today. They have redesigned the zones under responsibility to number three instead of four. Under the new plan, Government House will be at the centre, and evacuation areas have been designated for injured demonstrators, he said.

Narong said 10 advanced life-support (ALS) teams, each manned by a doctor, would be prepared from five hospitals, including Ratchawithi, Ramathibodi and Phra Mongkut Klao, to help demonstrators in the three zones.

The Ruam Katanyoo and Poh Teck Teung foundations would provide 20 basic life-support teams, comprising professionally trained personnel, to help the demonstrators.

Ten other ALS teams from Chachoengsao, Prachin Buri, Samut Prakan, Samut Sakhon and Nakhon Pathom would be on standby and ready to rush in and reinforce the emergency medical operations.

Narong said his forward centre would assess the situation to decide where medical teams would be dispatched.

The tollgate of the Yommaraj Expressway has been selected for taking up and transferring injured protesters to hospitals because transportation from there would be convenient.

He said the Erawan Centre, Narenthon Emergency Centre and the Ratchawithi Hospital would be contacted to send ambulances for injured protesters.

Narong said two foundation officials would coordinate with the protesters to make way for evacuations of injured protesters.

Speaking at the same press conference, Dr Phanpimol Wipulakorn, spokeswoman of the Public Health Ministry, advised people not to monitor reports about protests for too many hours each day.

She said the consuming of too much information could over-tire them, resulting in physical and mental exhaustion.

She said people would be under much tension and become sleepless and get headaches if they followed too much protest information.


-- The Nation 2013-12-09

[briboy]

as I said in another thread I hope when the sun sets today that it is not dripping blood from innocent people regardless which side they follow/support

[newermonkey]

Can we please bring back General Prem Tinsulanonda, just prop him up in a chair, blow off the cobwebs, dust him down, a bit of lick and polish. Play some old Jazz music on all tv and radio stations, broken only by some army broadcast to stay calm.

Can we please get the Thai people to forget about "playing" politics, please, its not going to work.

Please just let the experts run the country, it worked before it'll work again.

http://en.wikipedia....em_Tinsulanonda

[stoli]

The plan was announced by Dr Narong Apikulwanit, director of the forward medical operations centre for political rallies.

It is sad that such a position exists. Or needs to.