Labour Minister Mr. Suchart Chomklin led the team to visit and give words of encouragement to staff providing proactive Covid-19 screening services for insured persons at the Bangkok Youth Center (Thai-Japan) in Din Daeng, which opened for the last day before temporarily closing and reopening for services again on May 5 to 11.
On April 30, 2021, at the West Sports Building 1, Bangkok Youth Center (Thai-Japan) in Din Daeng, Labour Minister Mr. Suchart Chomklin visited and gave words of encouragement to staff providing proactive Covid-19 screening services to insured persons under the “Workforce Fighting Together” project, which opened for services for the last day before temporarily closing the center. The services will open and resume again on May 5 to 11. Meanwhile, the Covid-19 screening center at the multi-purpose building in Pathum Thani Vocational College will open today, April 30, 2021, as the last day before the center temporarily closes and reopens on May 5 to 11, for staff and medical personnel to stop and rest, and complete remaining groups. The situation will then be reassessed. Mr. Suchart said that Prime Minister and Minister of Defense General Prayuth Chan-ocha and the Ministry of Labour, under the supervision of General Prawit Wongsuwan, is concerned for insured persons amid the Covid-19 situation and instructed the Ministry of Labour to work with the Ministry of Interior and the National Health Security Office (NHSO) to launch proactive Covid-19 screening centers under the “Workforce Fighting Together” project in five provinces, including Bangkok, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani, Chiang Mai, and Chonburi. Overall, the program has screened 40,353 people and found 690 infected people (information as of April 29, 2021, at 17:00 hours). Each center has the following results: Bangkok has examined 27,095 people and found 679 infected people, 104 of whom have been sent to a hospital for treatment, 397 people to a Hospitel, whereas the rest are being investigated. Chonburi has screened 1,094 people and found 11 infected people who are under investigation. Pathum Thani has examined 7,389 people, Chiang Mai has tested 2,783 people, and Nonthaburi tested 1,992 people. These three provinces are awaiting results.
Insured persons who have questions about the Covid-19 screening or those in need of an ambulance to be picked up at home for examination or require coordination for a bed for treatment, the Ministry of Labour has the 1506 hotline, press 6, available every day from 08.00 hours to 17.00 hours, at the Social Security Office and the staff in front of the Labour Minister’s room, who will work closely together.
“I would like the insured person to be assured that the government and the Ministry of Labour have worked with the relevant departments to help and mitigate the Covid-19 outbreaks. The situation should be resolved as soon as possible, and the insured persons will receive the best care possible,” concluded Mr. Suchart.
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Division of Public Relations
30 April 2021
