Over 100 private hospitals have reportedly joined Covid-19 self-treatment programmes under the universal health coverage plan to help patients with mild symptoms recover at home.
Jadet Thammathat-aree, secretary-general of the National Health Security Office (NHSO), on Monday said patients showing mild symptoms are ruled out of Ucep Plus treatments.
Therefore, these patients must utilise the universal health coverage for alternative welfare options, the secretary-general said.
Over 100 hospitals have already joined the programme to help treat patients covered by the universal health plan, Dr Jadet said.
Ucep Plus is reserved for patients showing moderate to severe symptoms, he noted.
He said these 100 hospitals will treat patients showing mild symptoms, including fever, loss of sense of smell and taste, sore throat, cough, runny nose and diarrhoea.
Patients are to…
