Tag: Healthcare
No free sex-change operations for transgenders: Health office
The National Health Security Office (NHSO) has dismissed reports that transgenders will be able to get sex-change operations for free under the country’s universal healthcare [Read More…]
Funding problems cause hospital care crisis
Five hospitals have insufficient budgets for patient care after deducting medical staff salaries from a lump-sum payment under the Universal Healthcare Coverage (UC) scheme, according [Read More…]
30-baht health care scheme to stay but enhanced
The government won’t cancel the 30-baht health care scheme but instead enhance it, the National Health Security Office (NHSO) said. Assurance of the health care [Read More…]
Public Health to launch mobile health campaign next month
BANGKOK, 22nd April 2017 (NNT) – Mobile health units are to be dispatched to Prachin Buri Province to offer free medical services to the public. [Read More…]
Emergency patients forced to pay for ‘free’ care
MORE THAN half of the 912 patients who sought the government’s much-advertised free emergency medical help between April 1 and 9 found themselves labelled “unqualified” [Read More…]
18 state hospitals are broke
![The Buriram Hospital in Thailand](https://www.thailandnews.co/wp-content/uploads/Buriram-Hospital.jpg)
Eighteen state hospitals are broke having accumulated debts amounting from 92 million baht up to almost 400 million baht. The state of financial crisis of [Read More…]
Hospitals charging for ‘free’ services
The new chief of the National Institute of Emergency Medicine (NIEM) has pledged to look into complaints that some private hospitals are charging for emergency [Read More…]
Govt spokesman confirms 30-baht healthcare system to be carried out
BANGKOK, 22 February 2017 (NNT) – Government Spokesperson Lt Gen Sansern Kaewkamnerd has denied that Thailand’s universal healthcare system will be scrapped, affirming that the [Read More…]