PUBLISHED : 21 Feb 2024 at 04:00
NEWSPAPER SECTION: News
The cabinet has given the green light to a 37-billion-baht project to produce 62,000 family medicine doctors within 10 years to improve the country’s primary care services.
Government spokesman Chai Wacharonke said Tuesday’s cabinet meeting agreed in principle to approve the project to bump up the number of healthcare workers in the field of family medicine to upgrade the primary care service system.
The project was proposed by the Public Health Ministry.
It aims to produce 62,000 family medicine professionals, including physicians, nurses, public health scholars, nursing assistants, public health assistants, dentists, pharmacists, paramedics and traditional Thai medicine practitioners between 2025 and 2034 to improve the primary healthcare system.