Ministry of Public Health emphasizes surveillance of COVID patients to be tested at both public and private hospitals
Date 02 Jan. 2021 at 20:22
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Public Health Ministry clarifies 3 criteria for people in the surveillance network for COVID infection Point to see doctors from both public and private hospitals.
On January 2, 64, Dr. Archom Praditsuwan Deputy Director-General of the Department of Health Service Support (SSO), Ministry of Public Health (Ministry of Public Health), said that those who meet the surveillance criteria for COVID-19 are:
1. Have a history of one of those risks in the 14 days prior to symptoms such as traveling from an infected area. Or areas with ongoing outbreaks Working in close contact with people who come from an infected area Or areas with ongoing outbreaks Close contact with suspected or confirmed patients Is a medical personnel who has been in contact with a confirmed patient
2. Have one of the symptoms of COVID-19, such as cough, runny nose, sore throat, shortness of breath. The nose does not smell, the tongue does not taste.
3. Pneumonia patients with a history of either close contact with suspected COVID-19. Be a medical personnel Being a patient of treated pneumonia, the symptoms do not improve Is a patient with pneumonia that cannot be identified
If any public or someone close to the above criteria. Asked to hurry to go to a public or private hospital near home If a doctor finds out he is at risk, a screening test for COVID-19 is performed. Immediately without any charge Which is not limited to Thai people only Foreign workers can be screened for free as well. By the Department of Disease Control Ministry of Public Health Have prepared a budget for disease screening
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