News Forum - Thai health authorities insist latest Covid-19 wave is controllable

[Thaiger]

The Department of Disease Control under the Ministry of Public Health insists that the latest Covid-19 wave in Thailand will be small and controllable, and should be called a “mini wave,” not a new wave. The Rural Doctor Society Facebook page shared an urgent and secret document about a new wave of Covid to the public on Monday. The document was launched by the MOPH to urge medical workers and hospitals all over the country to prepare for an upcoming strain in Thailand. A doctor from the Internal Medicine Department of Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Nitiphat Chierakul, […]

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[Giltee]

 

The Department of Disease Control Should be commended for being realists, showing some sense and not fear mongering. Well done

 

[JJJ]

38 minutes ago, Giltee said:

The Department of Disease Control Should be commended for being realists, showing some sense and not fear mongering. Well done

But this part of the story is so infuriating:

”Opas answered questions about the lack of hospital beds saying that most of Covid patients in the hospitals now only had mild symptoms. He revealed that most of those patients in hospital now had asked to stay in hospital so they could claim their Covid-19 insurance. ”

People with mild symptoms should not be permitted to stay at hospitals—as though it’s some type of leisurely hotel for convalescence. Why doesn’t the DDC do something about that?

During the last wave, Singapore had very clear guidance when to go to a GP or hospital. But Thailand does nothing of the kind. 

[Prosaap]

So if there is no problem why ask for face masks again only by thai science they work i think they still have to many in stock 

[bushav8r]

The wave may turn out to be a tsunami.

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