Officials check Bangkok hospitals' readiness to treat MERS cases
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TIGHTER preparation measures to tackle MERS were encouraged at private hospitals as the Health Service Support Department (HSSD) team launched an inspection Thursday at Bangkok's Vejthani Hospital.
Up until now, at-risk MERS suspects in Chaiyaphum and Buri Ram provinces have shown no evidence of the infection.
HSSD director-general Boonruang Triruangworawat led the team to inspect the MERS preparation and screening measures at Vejthani Hospital in Bang Kapi district.
They found that a thermal scan camera had been installed at the hospital’s front door where visitors enter through two lanes. A disease-screening checkpoint had been set up and equipped with translators for patients from the Middle East. About 16 per cent of the hospital’s patients come from that region.
