Cabinet endorses guidelines to deal with Ebola in Thailand

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Cabinet endorses guidelines to deal with Ebola in Thailand



BANGKOK: -- The cabinet today approved a set of guidelines for the prevention and control of the spread of Ebola virus in the country as proposed by the Ministry of Public Health.

The guidelines include the setting up of a monitoring system to keep watch on human beings and animals; the caring and treatment of patients and prevention of the spread of the virus in hospitals; development of laboratorial tests which should be able to identify the virus within 24 hours; educating the public about how to protect themselves from the virus and the setting up of a coordinating centre to deal with emergency situation.

Public Health Minister Ratchata Ratchatanavin said today that the cabinet also endorsed the ministry’s plan to step up assistance to three western African countries hard hit by Ebola namely Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Lione as requested by the World Health Organisation and the United Nations.

He said that the ministry would take a lesson from the cases in the US and Spain where a few health workers were reported to have contracted Ebola while removing their protective gears as they worked in Ebola-struck African countries.

The lesson, he added, will be taught to Thai health officials who are to take care of Ebola patients.

DrRatchata pointed out that members of the public were the key in the prevention and control of the disease. He said Thais should avoid visiting African countries where Ebola is spreading and if they return from those countries they should report to health officials if they fall sick within 21 days since their return.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/cabinet-endorses-guidelines-deal-ebola-thailand/


-- Thai PBS 2014-10-15

[tracker1]

Didn't they say not so long ago they have the miracle cure ?

[wackybacky]

Many things missing from this list.

Many many things.

[brommers]

I flew into SUV yesterday from Johannesburg, South Africa, a country adjacent to Zimbabwe which has seen its first case of Ebola in recent days. No doubt there were passengers who might have come from Zimbabwe or West Africa. The only Ebola related intervention was an announcement on the Thai Airways flight, asking people who came from west Africa to go to the Health Dept offices on arrival. As we exited the plane there was no help for these people to find this facility, no signage or personnel to give guidance. So if I was one of those passengers I would have simply gone straight to Immigration and baggage reclaim.

Bangkok is a major hub that decants people from the danger zone into many countries in Asia. There was no evident concern about Ebola, and no help for anyone who wanted to submit themselves to an examination of the likelyhood of their exposure to this deadly disease.

Thailand is simply not serious about the danger of infection. Just look at the USA and to Europe to see countries that have already got deaths from Ebola. It will arrive here and escape into the community unless there is a serious upgrade in border health controls.

[marcusd]

Must not effect tourism at any cost. Even if it means a pandemic....

And on top of this EBOLA is so serious truly ... Only a total quarantine of effected nations... Restricted travel and cessation of flights is the only way to minimize this horrific disease.

This is extreme but we have no cure and this plague is evil in rapidly thus the increased number of deaths and lower survival numbers.

I too have flown to a few Asian nations and it I only talking not action.