Nurses at state-run Khon Kaen Hospital provide services to patients in the northeastern province of Khon Kaen on Tuesday. (Photo: Chakrapan Natanri)
Around 10,000 new nurses graduate annually, yet up to 7,000 quit Thai state-run hospitals each year due to excessive workloads and inadequate pay for overtime, according to the nurses’ union and Nurses Connect.
The significant rate of nurse resignations serves as a basis for urging the new government to explore more effective strategies to retain a maximum number of nurses within the country’s state-run healthcare system.
Suwimol Namkanisorn, a representative of the nurse’s union and Nurses Connect, said the rate of new nurses resigning within their first year of work is now as high…
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