Pattaya is expanding its “Doctors at Home” project, adding up to five more teams of physicals and nurses to make house calls on the city’s elderly and infirm.
Suphaporn Cherdchaipoom, director of the Pattaya Public Health Department, announced the program’s expansion at an April 17 meeting with representatives from Pattaya Hospital and bureaucrats from the disease-control, health-promotion, veterinary, drug-prevention and rehabilitation offices.
Officials meet to discuss how to not only continue, but expand the “Doctors at Home” project in Pattaya and the surrounding communities.
Teams planned to visit neighborhoods in north, central and south Pattaya April 30, after having called on the Thunwa, Rungruan and Charoensukh communities April 23.
Program administrators called “Doctors at Home” a general success, with teams having reached 60 percent of the target audience. However, they said, demand outstripped the supply of medical professionals. Both Pattaya and Chonburi hospitals were contacted to organization additional teams of doctors and nurses.
Those interested in seeing a doctor at home can call 038-420562 ext. 110.
