The “30-baht Plus” health care scheme, under which only an ID card is needed to get access to medical care at state hospitals, private hospitals, clinics and pharmacies which join the program, will be launched in eight more provinces in March, Public Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew said today in Roi-et province.
The minister, along with other key members of the Pheu Thai party, among them Paetongtarn Shinawatra, chair of the National Health System Development Committee and the Prime Minister’s Secretary-General Prommin Lertsuridej, are in Roi-et this morning to check the readiness of medical facilities joining the program, before its official launch this evening, to be presided over by Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin.
A similar program is to be launched simultaneously in Phrae, Phetchaburi and Narathiwat provinces.
Dr. Cholnan said that, in the second phase, the program will…
