WHO speaks highly of Thailand’s health care system

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Bangkok (VNA) – The World Health Organisation has praised Thailand for having a good health care system, with more than 1 million village health volunteers, which helped nearly 50 percent of COVID-19 patients recover.

Spokesperson of the Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration Taweesin Visanuyothin said since the outset of theCOVID-19 pandemic, the medical volunteers had visited at least 12 million houses and discovered about 600,000, mostly children and the elderly, who are vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Thailand has so far recorded 2,643 infection cases, including 43 fatalities. Meanwhile, 1,497 patients have recovered.

As of April 10, over 100,000 people were tested for COVID-19.

Meanwhile, the Pharmacy Council of Thailand suggested the government should build medicine reserves for the treatment of patients suffering from chronic diseases because the country may face a serious lack of such kind of medicines in the next month.

The Government Pharmaceutical Organization recently informed some hospitals that they will run out of some kinds of medicines in the next month while producers are facing difficulties in purchasing materials. /.