News Forum - Government says the WHO will use Thailand as a role model for Covid-19 management

[Thaiger]

The Thai government is patting itself on the back again, with a spokesperson saying officials have been praised by the World Health Organisation. Traisuree Taisaranakul says the administration has been cited as a role model for its management of the Covid-19 pandemic. She was speaking after a meeting between the health minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghrebreyesus, and the WHO’s regional director for Southeast Asia, Poonam Khetrapal Singh. According to a Nation Thailand report, the meeting took place at the 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. Traisuree says both Ghrebreyesus and Singh praised Thailand for its handling […]

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[Cabra]

Hearsay. Please show me an official communication from the WHO. 

[Greeneyes]

Pete Townend  and Roger Daltrey must have been stoned when they praised Thailand. 

[ThaiEyes]

Role model for economic disaster and totalitarianism maybe

[HiuMak]

57 minutes ago, Thaiger said:

The Thai government is patting itself on the back again, with a spokesperson saying officials have been praised by the World Health Organisation. Traisuree Taisaranakul says the administration has been cited as a role model for its management of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Yeah absolutely, as a NEGATIVE role model

[Smithydog]

It wouldn't surprise me if this was his statement as he has expressed similar remarks in the past.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/who-head-has-singled-out-one-developing-country-for-its-success-in-managing-the-coronavirus-pandemic-2020-11-13

Now the WHO has recently conducted a country review of the pandemic in Thailand, one of the first 4 countries to have done so. So the timing of the comments also seems about right. So in my opinion, it is likely something was said or they "selectively picked" it from a broader conversation.

https://www.who.int/thailand/news/detail/12-05-2022-thailand-shares-lessons-learned-from-the-covid-19-pandemic-with-who

Now, whether such a statement reflects an accurate assessment of the performance by Thailand during the Pandemic....that is well open to opinion and debate with many members quite happy to offer an alternative view!

[palooka]

Lets see

Very late starting anything by way of manageing Covid.

Bought over priced dud vaccines from China.

When it was under control told everyone to have a good Song Krong holiday and spread it around the country.

Going from less than 100 deaths to the current 29,884 in just over a year.

Misrepresent the true number of cases by any means possible to benefit tourism.

and on it goes ......

WHO have lost the plot if they think this is well managed, hate to see what they believe is badly managed.

[Poolie]

Well bashed everyone!! A sterling performance!

 

[JJJ]

If someone praises you and no one hears it, is it really praise?

[JJJ]

But the bigger question is does anyone really care what corrupt elite medical bureaucrats give out as grades?

To this day, how does Thailand justify the excessive hospitalization of healthy COVID positive test patients?

It’s a waste of resources and makes them I’ll prepared for a bad flare up that is likely to come.