Khon Kaen nurse who caught TB from a patient highlights needs for government help, say Thai media

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Khon Kaen nurse who caught TB from a patient highlights needs for government help, say Thai media

 

Picture: Sanook

 

KHON KAEN: -- Thai media has said that the case of a Khon Kaen nurse who contracted tuberculosis from a sick patient highlights the need for continued action to help Thailand's nurses.

 

Sanook said while reports that the government were adding more than 10,000 nurses to hospitals over the next few years was good news much remained to be done.

 

They highlighted the case of Nisakorn Sutphoh who they said caught TB and needed two weeks off work. Apart from the effects of a serious disease the nurse was left with financial difficulty from lack of earnings and had not received proper treatment, said Sanook.

 

They said that she was let down but was one of many suffering similar problems through no fault of their own.

 

They said that more needs to be done to help the overworked nurses and doctors in the government health sector.

 

Exposure to disease was an obvious factor in working in a hospital but when combined with overworked and tired medical staff whose immune systems could be compromised it was an even more serious problem.

 

Sanook called on the government to review working practices to make them fair and equitable and help the nation's healthcare professionals.

 

Government minister Sanserm Kaewkamnert has announced that 10,992 nurses would be enrolled by 2019 helping to ease the pressure on the healthcare system.

 

Source: Sanook

 

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[YetAnother]

people in general acquiring diseases while in hospitals:

http://nypost.com/2017/05/01/city-hospitals-are-making-people-extremely-sick/

this seems to imply that the public hospitals here , where the patient rate is so high, coupled with the societal overuse here of antibiotics , make the problem even more acute in thailand; also suggests that the general ward is not a good place to be

[aussie11950]

How could she get TB?

Was she aware the patient had TB

Did she follow the medical protocol with Personal Protective Equipment?

The hospital should look after its staff if they get sick at work.

It's a basic work responsibility.

 

[Acharn]

Back in the '80s Thailand had a great network of pulmonary disease centers. At some point they decided it was inefficient to have the centers separate from the hospitals, so closed them down. My wife had it and recovered, a niece and a nephew both died from it. Later, about 1996, another niece was diagnosed with it and recovered, but I've always suspected the hospitals taking over was a bad move. The center in Chon Buri was really good.

[BEVUP]

6 hours ago, aussie11950 said:

How could she get TB?

Was she aware the patient had TB

Did she follow the medical protocol with Personal Protective Equipment?

The hospital should look after its staff if they get sick at work.

It's a basic work responsibility.

 

& even if she wasn't aware one would wear all the PP possible in an emergency ward

Ive even seen them take blood tests without gloves 

[Khon Kaen Dave]

TB, once called consumption, to be consumed from within.Apparently carried by Badgers and People who like to bring the contents of their lungs into the general circulation by spitting on the street. But this is years ago. How could a nurse contract TB in a hospital, where cleanness and disinfection should be a 24 hour a day condition.She is meant to have contracted it from a patient.This says a lot for hospital hygiene.

[ksamuiguy]

In your dreams, keep non patients out of hospitals, they bring new germs with them, and may also catch the one inside where the sick people are expose others to the new bug when they leave.

Thai culture is a hindrance to "Medical Protocols", to bad easy to wear a mask, clean your hands and mostly control your kids, the nurses have enough to do without being your babysitter. Why would a parent bring their kid into a place full of sick people?

I see this every time I go to the hospital. Time to put some rules in place and enforce them. Monitor who comes in and why. Oh well TIT. 

 

[maewang99]

how to counter a difficult story topic...... and sell adverts like crazy... leaps better than if you just printed the basic stuff... which was the old style.... and is boring.

....find some nonsense that will grab attention but also makes the situation sound political... and......

double your advertiser's pleasure at putting ads on your media site.
 

analogy. Leondardo DiCaprio and Harrison Ford... talking about Fires in Indonesia and Ice Melting in Greenland... when the situation has little to do with either of those.
 

but it also ends up making something difficult to deal with.... sound a little silly.... or at some point even labeled as 'fake' when it is not at all fake... if you keep at.

and there's plenty of other analogies of this, yes? 
 

Edited May 25, 2017 by maewang99

[jerojero]

According to WHO, Thailand has over 90,000 new cases of TB each year. People in all walks of life and many don't know where or from whom they caught it.