Thai to myanmar translate8/10/2023 She said she sympathised with doctors, nurses and other health workers at the field hospital who had to take care of 600–700 infected migrant workers. She became a migrant health volunteer while staying in quarantine after testing positive for the virus. San Seint Seint Soe, 35, a migrant health worker at a field hospital at Samut Sakhon's main stadium, said she works for a shop at the Central Shrimp Market. Where needs must: These buildings inside the Wattana Factory grounds were converted into a field hospital. Today, there are 4,145 migrant health volunteers across nine provinces - including 3,098 in Samut Sakhon.Īmid the second wave of Covid-19, the government is urgently training migrant workers who have volunteered to help prevent the virus' spread in communities by recommending masking, hand washing and social distancing from other people in their communities and workplaces. They are trained for at least 40 hours so they can provide health knowledge and encourage migrant workers to receive public health services from the government. They work like Thai village health volunteers in provinces with communities of migrant workers. In fact, migrant health volunteers are not new in Thailand. It is considered safe for them to work at the hospitals since they are already immune to the virus, according to the doctor. Some continue to work at the hospitals even though they have completed a quarantine period with negative results from a second test. The volunteers are assigned to different zones to help take care of patients and clean the facilities. They wear a green armband and a green cap with the initials of "Or Sor Tor" which means migrant health workers. Migrant health volunteers at field hospitals in Samut Sakhon are people who have tested positive for the virus. Myanmar translation of health advice from Thai medical personnel is available on the page. Samut Sakhon has been given more than 10 Pinto robots to care for Covid-19 patients at the field hospitals.Ī Migrant Health Volunteers Facebook page has been launched to educate migrant workers on the pandemic. The telemedicine system features "Pinto" robots remotely controlled to deliver food and medicine to patients, he said. They are temporary health workers who help improve the efficiency of field hospitals and reduce direct contact with patients."įield hospitals, he said, use a telemedicine system sponsored by the Chaipattana Foundation to enable communication between patients and their doctors and decrease risks from contact-based disease transmissions. "Migrant volunteers are of great help to us. They are more comfortable talking about their illness and what they need with their compatriots," Dr Anukul said. "Migrant workers here are usually shy and afraid to communicate with Thais. A team of migrant volunteers who can speak Thai has been formed to interpret for the patients and Thai health care personnel at the hospitals, he said.Īpart from interpreting, another important task of migrant health volunteers is to give advice to migrant workers about how to protect themselves from the pandemic, help monitor those with severe symptoms, and coordinate requests for assistance or medication, he said. The field hospitals in Samut Sakhon have 700 beds for Covid-19 patients, all migrant workers who cannot understand Thai, Dr Anukul said. There are nine hospitals in total with one being set up. With mild symptoms or no symptoms at all, the infected migrant workers are quarantined at field hospitals in the province. A majority of cases in the province during the new wave of the disease are migrant workers. Samut Sakhon Hospital director Anukul Thaithanan said the province is classified as a dark red zone which means the maximum and strict control area with a high rate of infection - the highest in the country so far.
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