Hospital admissions trial going well
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An experimental admission of patients into state and private hospitals regardless of their welfare conditions is underway without major problems, a deputy National Health Security Office (NHSO) head said yesterday. More than 1,157 people applied for treat
Some 120 of those people are in the Social Security scheme, while 189 are civil servants using their welfare, 844 are under the NHSO’s “golden card scheme”. Three are state enterprise employees exercising their rights, and a verification of treatment rights was underway for one person, Weerawat Phankhrut said.
Some 696 cases were in Bangkok or nearby provinces while 461 were upcountry. Under many policies imposed with this trial, admission of emergency cases without staff asking patients about their rights or welfare is an important condition, he said.
Private hospitals are found to have cooperated well in admitting the patients and the transfers of patients to better equipped hospitals are made easily and without hesitation. "The experiment has been continuing well and regarded a success by far, although certain problems surface and are pending correction," he added.
