A field hospital may be opened in Mae Sot district if Covid-19 infections prove too much for the main local hospital to handle, said governor Pongrat Piromrat on Wednesday.
Tak, which borders Myanmar, is one of the established border trade channels. The Covid-19 outbreak has seen many people crossing illegally into Thailand to evade health checks and quarantine, raising fears of spikes in infections in the province.
The governor said the province has prepared a logistical and resources management plan to handle the Covid-19 patients. If there are more patients than Mae Sot Hospital can cope with, they will be referred to hospitals in the nearby districts of Phop Phra and Mae Ramat. In case the patients overwhelm the hospitals in those districts, Mae Sot Hospital will add 200 more beds.
If the infections continued to overstretch the hospital’s handling capacity,…
