Thread: Quarantine of over 100 medical staff leaves Khon Kaen Hospital understaffed

Khon Kaen Hospital has become severely understaffed as more than 100 health professionals must remain in self-isolation for two weeks because they were in a risky group for Covid-19 infection.

“Since the new wave of Covid-19 outbreak had been reported in late March, many people have visited the hospital to get tested. The crowdedness has affected the hospital’s operation as well as the treatment of other patients,” said Dr Rujiraluck Phrommeuang, the hospital’s deputy director.

“We have decided to move the Covid-19 testing unit to the Medical Sciences Institute located in front of Khon Kaen City Hall to reduce crowdedness at the hospital.

”Rujiraluck added that the testing unit will open daily from 9am until noon and would accept only health professionals and those who have had direct contact with confirmed patients.

“Even if the test result is negative, the test subject must remain in self-quarantine for 14 days to make sure that they are free of Covid-19,” she added. “Because of this, more than 100 health professionals at the hospital are now in quarantine, causing understaffing at the hospital.”

“We have already contacted health authorities to send additional staff to the hospital,” she said.

“In the meantime, patients who do not need immediate treatment should postpone their visit to the hospital, or opt to receive their medicines via postal mail.

”Khon Kaen reported 31 new confirmed patients in the province on April 14, with 126 accumulated cases from the recent waves from December 15, 2020 to April 14.


Quarantine of over 100 medical staff leaves Khon Kaen Hospital understaffed

...the hospital is not an island: call in med professionals from other area hospitals to fill in...

politicians have been inoculated, royalty has been inoculated, when will the medics be inoculated?

understaffed? That'd be an understatement.

So, after a year they still have no testing centres other than hospitals? No wonder they are besieged in a fresh outbreak. The longer I stay the more convinced I am that the Thai are cognitively impaired through an evolutionary defect and simply cannot plan ahead or think in the abstract.

But at least we can all be consoled by the happy knowledge all our glorious leaders and their cronies have been vaccinated.

Many Medical Staff Are Forced into Self-quarantine from Withholding of Information

BANGKOK (NNT) - More than 100 medical staff at many state hospitals have been forced into self-quarantine after patients failed to disclose they had been in contact with infected people.


Khon Kaen Hospital has ordered 105 medical staff to quarantine immediately after they have been in contact with Covid-19 patients. Bhumibol Adulyadej Hospital in Bangkok has also announced it would stop receiving any new Covid-19 cases until April 30 after medical personnel came into contact with Covid-19 patients.


Samut Prakan Hospital and Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra Hospital dozens of medical staff had been forced to self-isolate after contracting Covid-19 from patients who failed to give clear information about their previous contacts.


Meanwhile, Photharam Hospital in Ratchaburi province had to carry out a thorough cleaning and announced a brief closure of its facilities after finding that six medical staff had contracted Covid-19.


https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/d...10418104144007

Originally Posted by misskit

has also announced it would stop receiving any new Covid-19 cases until April 30 after medical personnel came into contact with Covid-19 patients.

Originally Posted by misskit

after contracting Covid-19 from patients who failed to give clear information about their previous contacts.

Think someone has added 1 and 1 and ended up with 3.