The Public Health Ministry is to introduce a Universal Coverage for Emergency Patients (UCEP) Plus programme for Covid-19 patients with moderate to severe symptoms.
The Department of Health Service Support director-general, Dr Tares Krassanairawiwong, said patients with moderate symptoms will be treated at state and private hospitals under the newly extended UCEP Plus scheme.
At present, all costs associated with Covid-19 treatments are covered by the UCEP scheme, meaning patients can seek treatment at any hospital free of charge.
However, from March 1, Covid-19 treatments for all but the most serious cases will no longer be covered.
Patients with mild symptoms will be treated by means of home or community isolation programmes or under other schemes including the National Health Security Office’s universal health coverage scheme, the social security system or the…
