The Rural Doctor Society (RDS) has put its weight behind a proposal made by a senior doctor at Ramathibodi Hospital that urged the government to spend around 1 billion baht to subsidise senior citizens’ trips to a Covid vaccination centre.
The group supported the idea floated by Vijj Kasemsup, a doctor with the Department of Community Medicine at Ramathibodi Hospital’s Faculty of Medicine.
Dr Vijj suggested the government should cover the cost of a senior citizen’s trip to a vaccination centre in a bid to get more elderly people in Thailand vaccinated.
“If the government pays 500 baht per trip to get a jab, it would cost the government a thousand baht to get a person fully vaccinated.
“This means they will have to pay one billion baht to cover half of the number of unvaccinated senior citizens but it is much better value than to pay for medical treatments in…
