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News Agency: Thai News Agency
URL:www.mcot.net/viewtna/5e66308ce3f8e40af341f710
Publishing Date: 9 Mar 2019
The Thai News Agency team investigated several hospitals in Khon Kaen Province about the shortage of face masks. They found that all the hospitals they asked about had low levels of face masks in their medical supply warehouses, nearing a critical level. The hospitals solved the problem by sewing their own cloth masks, while the materials for sewing cloth masks are starting to run out.
At the end of January, there were 200,000 masks left in the medical supply warehouse at Srinagarind Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University. However, there are currently 35,000 left after the hospital was unable to order masks since the end of last month.
Srinagarind Hospital is a large hospital with 1,300 beds and uses approximately 5,000 surgical masks per day. When surgical masks became scarce and could not be ordered, the hospital's sewing and repair unit had to turn to sewing cloth masks since the beginning of last month. There has been a plan for the use of cloth masks and surgical masks.
Cloth masks can prevent infection to some extent, but they are not as good as surgical masks. Srinagarind Hospital has a goal of producing 40,000 cloth masks. Currently, it can produce 600 pieces per day. Currently, there is a problem of a shortage of gauze and sewing equipment. Srinagarind Hospital has opened for donations of old diapers, thread, elastic, and is recruiting volunteers to sew cloth masks. Meanwhile, hospitals in Khon Kaen Province, the Thai News Agency team has contacted several hospitals and found that they are facing a shortage of surgical masks and have solved the problem by sewing their own cloth masks, just like Srinagarind Hospital. - Thai News Agency
