The Department of Medical Affairs has updated the “bed occupancy rate” to treat COVID-19 nationwide to 60% from the total number of beds 1.8 hundred thousand, confirming that it is still sufficient for severely ill patients.
The Department of Medical Affairs has updated the “bed occupancy rate” to treat COVID-19 nationwide to 60% from the total number of beds 1.8 hundred thousand, confirming that it is still sufficient for severely ill patients.
Dr. Somsak Ankasil, Director-General of the Department of Medical Services, revealed that from the situationnew infectedincreasing, causing people to have concerns that public health system especially the sufficiency of the numberBeds for COVID-19 patients
Department of Medical Services has operated bed management with various network agencies, including hospitals affiliated with the UHosNeT network, Bangkok, defense, private hospitals. civil society and related agencies, with Satit Petutecha, Deputy Minister of Public Health presided over the meeting to prepare for the opposition to medical treatment and the prevention of conception in hospitals in Bangkok Operation group against the management and medical treatment UHOSNET BKK Department of Medical Affairs every week To update the overall situation of covid 19, assess the situation and the bed potential for covid 19 patients inhospital Home Isolation (HI) and Community Isolation (C) at all levels in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region including an overview of the country, whichCurrently, most of the infected are children. Over 90% of working-age people have mild symptoms. and more than 50% have no symptoms, butdeceased group Severe symptoms are still in the elderly group. fragile group have a chronic disease home next to bed infected by close people Currently, there are about 1.8 lakh covid beds nationwide. Bed occupancy rate is about 60%.
Dr. Nuttaphong Wongwiwat, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Medical Services, revealed that the COVID-19 outbreak is on an uptrend. The trend of the number of infected people continues to be high. Most of them are green syndrome. Therefore, there are also beds to accommodate severe symptoms.
However, it is important to understand how to enter the medical system after infection. Those who have symptoms or other illnesses go to the hospital for a checkup and find positive results. A system of treatment at home (HI) or hospital will be organized according to the level of symptoms.
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If there are no symptoms, they will be assigned to HI first. If not, they will be sent to a Waiting Center (CI), but if the symptoms are more severe, the hospital will be sent to the Bed Center and continue to the main hospital. or call 1669 if there is an emergency
forNationwide bed information Information from the Ministry of Public Health on 24 Feb 2022. as follows
- Total 142,044 bed occupancy level 1, 89,141 beds, bed occupancy rate 62.8%
- Critically ill, level 2.1, total 24,456 beds, occupy 5,104 beds, bed occupancy rate 20.9%
- Level 2.2 Total 5,633 beds 703 beds occupancy rate 12.5%
- Level 3 Total 2,158 beds 419 beds occupancy rate 19.4% overall 174,291 beds 95,367 beds occupancy 54.7% bed occupancy rate
- 69,278 caregivers at home (HI) and 24,369 in the community (CI)
While Bangkok Metropolitan Region, which has a high number of patients more than 3,000 per day, has cooperation in all sectors, whether it is the private sector, medical schools. Police Hospital, Medical Department, Department of Disease Control, Department of Mental Health, Ministry of Defense and BMA, totaling 69,682 beds, 36,454 beds in the hospital, bed occupancy rate 52.31%, vacant beds 47.69%.
