"Hotline"

The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) and Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) are launching a hotline to book Covid-19 jabs in the capital.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is planning to overhaul its 1669 Covid-19 hotline following complaints from people unable to reach the staff.

Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered that more personnel be deployed to man the 1668 and 1669 Covid-19 hotlines and helplines after nobody answered his call.

In a Facebook post on Sunday (July 19), an 18-year-old said that when she called the medical hotline 1669, the official who answered the phone mimicked the sound of a busy signal and cut the call.

The Public Health Ministry, in partnership with the World Health Organisation and other health-related agencies, has launched a three-language hotline to help answer questions on Covid-19 posed by migrant workers in the country.

Road-accident injuries rank top in the list of health problems among working-age citizens between 20 and 60 years old, according to the number of calls for help made to the National Institute for Emergency Medicine (NIEM) hotline 1669 since May 1 last year.

Bangkok - A fire department in northern Bangkok has not received a call for a fire since June. But for trapping a slithery foe? There is a 24-hour hotline.

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha is preparing to launch the Sustainable Thai Niyom Hotline to get closer to people.

As police returned to the victims Bt1.7 million recently seized from gangsters involved in a “call-centre scheme”, the national police chief’s special advisor, Pol General Thanitsak Theerasawat, said forces had seized a total of Bt120 million from scammers and returned it to victims in the past seven month.