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Date:
1977-1981
Source:
Office of the Prime
Minister, National Economic and Social Development Board, Bangkok, Thailand
Subject:
health services, medical
care
Text:
2.4.2
Expansion of Medical Care and Treatment: The number of hospitals
will be increased so that there is at least on hospital in each district of
the country. In addition, medical and health centres will be strengthened and
improved. It is envisaged that about 20 per cent of the rural population will
have access to these facilities.
The
number of beds that will be increased in the hospitals, both in provincial and
in urban areas during the Fourth Plan will be as follows:
| area |
no of beds |
|
in the provincial
areas............................ |
12,290 |
| in urban areas (ie. in
Bangkok).............. |
802 |
These
increases will then produce the following physician : bed : population
ratios.
| area |
ratio |
| in the
province..................................... |
1 : 30.3 : 18,700 |
| in urban
areas....................................... |
1 : 14.0 : 1,639 |
The
targets for renovating and constructing hospital will be as follows:
District
hospitals to be
Renovated and constructed |
amount
of increase
(Units) |
| with about 60-120
beds............................... |
15 |
| with about 30
beds.............................. |
25 |
| with about 10
beds.............................. |
60 |
| health centres............................................. |
600 |
2.4.3
Control, Prevention and Treatment of Communicable Diseases:
Communicable
disease which are principal causes of illnesses and death will be kept under
control, prevented and treated so that the rural population will be
relatively free from such diseases. The following targets have been set for
reducing morbidity and mortality rates:
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to reduce
morbidity and mortality rates from food and water-borne diseases by 30
per cent and 50 per cent respectively,
-
to reduce
morbidity and mortality rates from malaria and carrier-borne diseases
by 30 per cent and 50 per cent respectively,
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to reduce the
morbidity rate of diseases of the respiratory system and skin diseases
by 25 per cent and 15 per cent respectively,
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to reduce the
morbidity rate of diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus and polio by 50
per cent, and
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to reduce the
morbidity rate of leprosy by 60 per cent by control and 5 per cent by
treatment.
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