Chum Saeng Hospital closed after 4 staff contract Covid-19

[Thaiger]

After 4 staff of Chum Saeng Hospital in Nakhon Sawan were infected with Covid-19, the hospital was forced to close until July 10. The medical personnel assisted in delivering a baby and after the birth, the woman complained of chest pains. She was then tested for Covid-19 and the results came back positive. The hospital, in the Chum Saeng district of Nakhon Sawan, about 250 kilometres north of Bangkok, is now testing its entire staff. A total of 7 medical personnel came in close contact with the woman during her labour and delivery, including doctors and nurses. They have all […]

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[PohTou]

The hospital has been closed and people affected with VCovid 19 because of an infected Thai woman. There was no foreign tourist involved!

[AussieBob]

4 hours ago, PohTou said:

The hospital has been closed and people affected with VCovid 19 because of an infected Thai woman. There was no foreign tourist involved!

Excellent point and although humour at the heart, it is sadly a reality for many Thais - some of them think farangs are the problem. Right back in the early days of C19 even the Minister (Anutin) was blaming 'dirty farangs' for bringing C19 into Thailand.  A lot of Thais do not realise that the vast majority of C19 outbreaks have been caused by illegal foreign workers from neighbouring countries - and it is not just the construction workers - it was the imported young girls at those upmarket Bangkok venues that were also a cause. Hopefully Thailand people will one day realise that their allowing of exploitation of the poor people in neighbouring countries for decades has become the major cause of the C19 outbreaks since early 2021.   

[bushav8r]

Put everything back into the barnyard...shut her down...

[AussieBob]

5 minutes ago, Zool said:

I was just going to post asking where the infections are coming from but you answered my question. It makes sense that it is the cheap labour border hoppers bringing in new infections. All foreigners have very strict quarantine and testing so it has to be the illegal workers. 

I have not heard about one single case whereby a foreigner under quarantine gave covid to a local Thai - and it would be heavily publicised by the anti-farang Junta is that did occur.  Tim Newton has said it many times as well - and he is on the ground and across things far better than myself. The problem is not farangs and masks etc - it is illegals from neighbouring countries who then are forced to have close living/socialising conditions. But unfortunately the local Thais are very suspicious and superstitious - they see foreigners are problems when if they just had a quick think back over their history and they would realise where most of their problems come from - next door.

[AussieBob]

2 hours ago, bushav8r said:

Put everything back into the barnyard...shut her down...

I would try to keep Phuket and Samui and the other islands open and strictly isolated from all other Thais - but until the number of new cases drops a lot, then I would keep things in Bangkok and the rest of the country under controls as required in each Province. 

[bushav8r]

Dream Believer

[AdvocatusDiaboli]

But without these migrants, who would do the work? Thais don’t want to do a lot of these jobs, they obviously want to save face.

[AussieBob]

2 hours ago, AdvocatusDiaboli said:

But without these migrants, who would do the work? Thais don’t want to do a lot of these jobs, they obviously want to save face.

Unfortunately that is true.  What they need to do is rigorously enforce the rules and jail/fine businesses that bring in the labour illegally. They should make it an easier and cheaper option to do it legally - and then conduct health tests on them. C19 is not the only thing coming with them - they are poor and desperate - especially from Myanmar.   

[Stonker]

What's worrying about this is that hospital staff have clearly yet to be vaccinated although the general public, at minimal risk and not vulnerable, in places like Phuket already have been.

 

What's no surprise, though, is that those who aren't even here - as well as a few who are - are perpetuating this absurd myth that Thais have blamed foreigners for the Covid crisis when apart from a very few very isolated cases it's never happened.