Funds prepares for surge in Covid instances
Bangkok City Hall provides opened two new field hospitals with a total of five hundred beds for Covid-19 patients with gentle symptoms.
Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt on Wed met non-governmental companies such as the Zendai Basis and Sai Mai Tong Rod team to improve guidelines in order to best manage the particular rising number of Covid-19 patients being treated by hospitals.
Mr Chadchart said the BMA’s affiliated hospitals have got about 760 bedrooms allocated for moderate-to-severe Covid-19 cases. Since Wednesday, about 47% of their beds had been occupied, including 17 severe cases.
When every hospital in Bangkok has been counted, the capacity to handle Covid-19 sufferers is 5, six hundred beds. At present, about 3, 000 beds or 47% are usually occupied.
To prepare for the rise, BMA has transformed facilities at the Bangkok Arena in Nong Chok district and Chaloem Phrakiat Sport Training Centre in Thung Kru region into field hospitals. Altogether, the new services can accommodate regarding 500 patients along with mild symptoms.
Mr Chadchart said the BMA would coordinate along with other parties to add more beds if needed.
Aside from hospital beds, he also addressed the void of Covid-19 patient quotas that hospitals may receive per day.
The chief excutive insisted there can not be a quota and asked patients to see any of the 11 private hospitals operated by the BMA or visit Vajira Hospital or the 69 public health program centres across the town for treatment.
For those considered among the high-risk “608” group who obtain infected with Covid-19, they can ask their particular relatives to get medicines for them from a nearby hospital.
The hospital must maintain checking on the condition of the particular patients while these people stay home for treatment, Mr Chadchart stated.
Additionally , Covid-19 patients can call the Erawan Centre’s 1669 hotline which now provides 60 phone ranges to provide immediate company to patients, for example bed arrangement and patient transfers, which includes vaccination services in your own home, he said.
Meanwhile, Dr Somsak Akksilp, director-general of the Department associated with Medical Services, stated the occupied bed rate has gradually increased at the department’s three affiliated private hospitals — Lerdsin, Rajavithi and Nopparat Rajathanee hospitals.
He said the combined daily case from the three hospitals is about 1, 500.
The department has suggested all Bangkok hospitals resume their acute respiratory infection centers due to the rise in Covid-19 infections, he stated.