On July 23, 2021, Labour Minister Mr. Suchart Chomklin assigned the Ministry of Labour’s Advisor, Mrs. Thiwalrat Angkinan, to visit the COVID-19 Vaccination Center for Insured Persons in Bangkok at 27 Engineering Co., Ltd., located on Rama 2 Road, Samae Dam, Bang Khun Thian, Bangkok, which is under the responsibility of the Bangkok Social Security Office Area 7. The site can vaccinate 700 people daily, staffed with a team of doctors, nurses, and pharmacists from Bang Pakok Hospital 8. Mrs. Thiwalrat said that the government under the leadership of Prime Minister and Minister of Defense General Prayuth Chan-ocha, and Deputy Prime Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan, who oversees the Ministry of Labour, is concerned for the workforce and the public amid the COVID-19 situation. The government has set vaccinations as a national agenda. The Labour Minister assigned the Social Security Office to work with the Ministry of Interior, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, the Ministry of Public Health by the National Health Security Office (NHSO), the Ministry of Finance by Krung Thai Bank, and both public and private social security network hospitals to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to insured persons to control wide outbreaks in both factories and establishments. In the initial phase, vaccinations are allocated for Section 33 insured persons in Bangkok. This vaccination center will operate from July 15 to August 13, 2021. The goal is to vaccinate 700 people daily to insured persons who registered via the e-service system. From June 7 to July 22, a total of 51,083 people has been vaccinated.
“Today, Labour Minister Mr. Suchart Chomklin has assigned my team and me to visit the COVID-19 Vaccination Center for Section 33 Insured Persons at 27 Engineering Co., Ltd., which has the potential to vaccinate 700 people daily. The visit’s objective is to monitor the process and give encouragement to the medical personnel. COVID-19 vaccinations for Section 33 insured persons is one of the Ministry of Labour’s measures to prevent outbreaks and provide treatment. Expediting vaccinations to insured persons follows government policy to control the spread of COVID-19 and build immunity among the workers for the business to move forward,” concluded Mrs. Thiwalrat.
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Division of Public Relations
23 July 2021
