Thai Health Ministry sets budget against Ebola

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MOPH sets budget against Ebola

BANGKOK, 21 August 2014 (NNT) –The Ministry of Public Health has approved a 100-million-baht budget for the prevention of Ebola.

According to Public Health Permanent Secretary, Dr Narong Sahamethapat, the strategic committee against emerging infectious diseases has issued an alert against the possibility of Ebola outbreak and has approved a budget of 100 million baht to prevent and fight against infectious diseases, including Ebola and Coronavirus.

The budget is to be spent on medical facilities, increasing staff welfare, renovating laboratories, as well as disseminating information about the infectious diseases.

The meeting also focused on prevention against the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, given the fact that it has already claimed 1,229 lives and infected over 2,000 in four African countries. The preventive measures include monitoring and screening passengers at the nation's 5 international airports: Suvarnabhumi, Don Muang , Chiang Mai, Phuket, and Hat Yai.


-- NNT 2014-08-21

[clockman]

What is this obsession with Ebola! Far more people die in Thailand. Of Dengue and Influenza.?

[davehowden]

Thought we were told about a week ago by TAT, TIT, DIDLY SQUAT or some other organization that Thailand was not at risk from Ebola.

[Pib]

Thought we were told about a week ago by TAT, TIT, DIDLY SQUAT or some other organization that Thailand was not at risk from Ebola.

Yeap, for example just two weeks ago the Director of the Dept of Disease Control stated per this news story.

BANGKOK - A public health official has assured the Thai public that an outbreak of Ebola virus in Thailand is extremely unlikely.

"We have estimated that the risk of an outbreak in Thailand is very minimal," said Sophon Mekthon, director of the Department of Disease Control (DDC), "However, we are not letting our guard down. We have implimented many measures to control and prevent the disease."

[Valentine]

Seems like it could be a nice little earner given the vague detail which has been reported. At present if there are no decent quarantine facilities then it is long overdue.

[worgeordie]

What is this obsession with Ebola! Far more people die in Thailand. Of Dengue and Influenza.?

As well as on the roads,falling off balconies.and electrocutions must be a lot of those.

regards Worgeordie

[chotthee]

Money will be wasted. Read here.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/753607-no-need-to-worry-about-ebola-phuket-airport-health-staff/

[rikimilton]

Ebola is very danger diseases and no proper vaccines and medicines. but that Thailand was not at risk from Ebola.

[Payboy]

...increasing staff welfare...

Thanks Ebola !

[klauskunkel]

'Ebola' is just a storm in a teacup compared to 'Officials'!

Thailand is at risk from Officials, an insidious, highly contagious and deadly disease. Early symptoms include spouting of nonsensical comments, denials, pomposity, kneejerk reactions and nose digging. Later (the timeframe varies), the symptoms develop into full-blown corruption, apathy, budgetary fiddling, cover-ups and bleeding of the national treasury. The origin of Officials is unknown, however, many sign point to a country's culture of face and patriarchy in tandem with an underdeveloped immune system. Due to it's insidious nature in inducing apathy, Officials is not easy to detect and even harder to isolate. If left untreated Officials will result in a badly damaged economy, loss of reputation and confidence, lawlessness and finally breakdown of all systems. There is no cure, nor research for a cure and the disease will run it's course and leave either a much debilitated or dead victim in it's wake...