Normally, he said, hospitals are granted funds based on the number of patients they treat over a year, and medical facilities in remote areas usually get small sums due to few patients. On a scale from one to seven based on the severity of financial problems, 39 small public hospitals were at level six in 2020, but this reduced to eight last year and zero this year, Kiartiphum said. There were 15 hospitals at the worst level of financial crisis in 2020, and the number reduced to one last year and zero this year. He added that up to 829 or 92 per cent of 900 public hospitals in Thailand had a good financial standing in the first quarter of this year.

Source: The Nation Bangkok February 25, 2022 08:59 UTC