Brand-new health chief makes gain access to vow
PUBLISHED: 13 Sep 2023 at 04:00
UDON THANI – The Ministry of Public Health has actually pledged to enhance the universal health care plan with much better gain access to and services for all, particularly for individuals residing in hardship in huge cities.
Speaking at a scholastic conference in Udon Thani province on Tuesday, Dr Opas Kankawinpong, the ministry’s long-term secretary, stated the universal health care plan has actually been carried out for 21 years, however there was space for enhancement to much better adjust it to individuals’s altering way of lives.
In the past, the ministry specified susceptible or vulnerable groups as those who reside in remote locations since they do not have access to standard health care.
Nevertheless, nowadays this likewise describes clingy individuals residing in huge cities such as Bangkok, Pattaya, Chiang Mai and Nakhon Ratchasima who likewise deal with problems in accessing medical treatments.
This is an issue the ministry requires to attend to, Dr Opas stated.
” How to ensure the vulnerable groups can get access to medical treatments under the 30-baht health care plan with no constraint is our job under the ’30-baht health care plan plus’, which we will introduce soon in line with the brand-new minister’s policy,” he stated.
Numerous concerns need to be gone over consisting of personnel lacks and task descriptions of medical workers, he included.
The ministry is dealing with lacks of medical personnel as young physicians have actually been resigning from state-owned health centers due to their overloaded work. The universal health care plan is viewed as one element adding to this overload as lots of clients go to state-run health centers.
Under the “30-baht universal health care plus” idea, the ministry will concentrate on health care avoidance, health promo, rehab and using innovation consisting of telemedicine to decrease the variety of outpatients at state health centers.
Dr Opas stated individuals likewise can utilize their ID card to access any medical facility health care service, instead of being restricted to the medical facility where they initially signed up, as part of the brand-new federal government’s policy to get rid of restrictions to universal health care.
The ministry will talk about the concern with the National Health Security Workplace, which supervises the universal health care plan’s spending plan, and pick an ideal allowance for health centers across the country.
