Wittaya assures good care for patients transferred from hospitals in Bangkok
Public Health Minister Witthaya Buranasiri assured yesterday that critical patients transferred from flood-hit hospitals to other places would receive good care and the ministry would arrange their trips home once flooding recedes.
Witthaya visited transferred patients at Maharat Nakhon Ratchasima Hospital yesterday. He said the ministry had transferred 340 critical patients from flood-hit facilities to other hospitals between Tuesday and yesterday. He said the patients would receive standard treatment and the ministry would arrange transport to their hometowns after the situation returned to normal.
In the week to yesterday, 122 patients were sent to this northeastern province from Bangkok hospitals. Some 99 of them were sent to Maharat Nakhon Ratchasima Hospital, with 28 allowed to go home.
Witthaya urged the provincial governor to provide free temporary shelter and arrange for patients’ trips home after the flooding ends.
The hospital was well equipped and had staff to provide them good care, he said. It was capable of taking another 50 critical patients.
Maharat Nakhon Ratchasima is caring for six chronic kidney patients from Bangkok and could take another 45, he said.
Meanwhile, 16 critical patients from Bangkok’s Bhumibol Adulyadej, Lerdsin and Rajavithi hospitals have been sent to Udon Thani.
