Police Hospital security increased after Monday’s bombing

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Police Hospital security increased after Monday’s bombing

By The Nation

 

 

Police General Hospital on Tuesday stepped up security measures following the bomb attack at a Bangkok Army hospital on Monday.

 

Hospital director Pol Lt-General Witoon Nitiwarangkul said the hospital already had high standards and efficient safety measures in place because there had been rallies in its vicinity in the past.

 

“We have high standards of safety but have not been so strict. I don’t think we will have to scan baskets or flower vases brought in for patients because the hospital has to offer convenience for patients and visitors,” the director said.

 

However, after the explosion at Phramongkutklao Hospital on Monday, he instructed officials to reinforce their safety checks at entrances. One area of focus will be checking garbage cans to watch for people placing dangerous items inside them.

 

VIP areas and emergency and operating rooms will also be monitored more carefully as more security personnel were deployed to the hospital.

 

There are 190 security cameras at key areas of inside the hospital and 300 more distributed around the premises. 

 

Witoon added that hospitals should not be targets in any conflict.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/breakingnews/30316081

 

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[Rhys]

...hmmm have to watch out for the ER. dogs and the OR Cats... there are so many ways to enter that hospital.....Can just wait when they stop a high ranking soldier, who will not submit to a search of the food basket...  hospital in Thailand do not have security, as part of the way it is...the families are camped out in the halls of some regional and provincial hospital.. on the Amphur level... part of the staff.

 

Visiting hours, visitors passes... never going to happen....in many of those hospitals.  

 

The current staff just needs to be a little more safety oriented and to notice a bit more often... on the floors, departments, and waiting rooms, the janitors need a little more help.......that is a start... and security services to follow up...

 

However, this would mean hiring a few more people...will this happen?

Edited May 23, 2017 by Rhys

[YetAnother]

NOT NOT saying it isnt needed; huge pity tho that this is where we are; security at hospitals

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