Category archives: Health

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is planning to overhaul its 1669 Covid-19 hotline in response to complaints from people that the line was never available. Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang said up to 3,500 people have been calling daily since the new wave in March. Callers will have to wait for…

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha has stressed that the Government would try every way for Thailand to get through the new wave of the COVID-19 crisis. The Prime Minister delivered a speech on the COVID-19 situation and the provision of vaccines against the disease, as well as the Government’s readiness…

Siriraj Hospital has called healthy people who have not visited high-risk areas or been in close contact with confirmed COVID-19 patients in the past two weeks to donate blood. Siriraj’s Department of Transfusion Medicine chief Dr Parichart Phermphikul said the hospital’s blood bank is running low because people have not…

Despite some concerns over the side effects of COVID-19 vaccinations, provinces across the country have remained committed to vaccinating Public Health and frontline workers. The first Sinovac vaccinations have been given to physicians and medical professionals at Kanchanadit Hospital in Surat Thani with a total of 350 people receiving the…

The 1668 hotline for COVID-19 patients seeking hospital beds has been overwhelmed with more callers than it can handle. The Department of Medical Services has increased the number of available operators, while urging patients to use an official chat account on the LINE messaging application as an alternative contact channel….

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…