Health Ministry seeks to hire 76,000 staff

Witthaya said that as a large agency providing healthcare services to the Thai population – which rises by 300,000 a year – ministry responsibilities had increased. Witthaya said the number of out-patient service users rose by 28 per cent from 148 million to 189 million from 2006-2009, while the number of in-patient service users rose by 27 per cent from 4.5 million to 5.7 million from 2006-2010. The ministry said its manpower needs in 2013-2017 amounted to 76,769 positions. Of those, 51,051 urgently needed to be filled from 2012-2014 and 25,718 were positions that could be filled from 2015-2017.