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Aims and Objectives
This white paper aims to share Thailand’s strategies in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and provide strategic examples for pandemic response and recovery to other communities and countries. It presents a collation of good practices and models of “Healthcare Facilities Preparedness for COVID-19” (the Project) for health service delivery and explores the ”new normal” to further strengthen Thailand’s health system.
Specific objectives of this white paper are to:
1. Provide contextual information on Thai culture and historical
experiences with outbreak control that contributed to the country’s
preparedness and response for the current pandemic.
2. Share key lessons learned from past outbreaks to be applied to the preparedness, response, and recovery from the current and
future outbreaks.
3. Outline Thailand’s COVID-19 road map and specific measures
taken that contributed to successful case detection and disease
control.
4. Highlight the risk-informed Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) for
emerging infectious diseases of each region which contributed to
population-level resilience.
5. Review Thailand’s hospital response plans and propose policies
for preparedness and resilient recovery within the healthcare sector and guidelines at the hospital level, inter-departmental levels, and ministerial levels.
6. Applying lessons learned to policy recommendations with clear linkages to existing national disaster management mechanisms for better preparedness and response to future pandemics.
METHODOLOGY
This white paper was developed through a series of in-person and virtual consultations between DMSF, DMS, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), and other stakeholders. Inputs were provided by all parties and the final document was approved by DMSF and DMS.
For Section 1, ADPC conducted background research on Thailand’s history of respiratory outbreak control, Thai culture as a facilitator of outbreak response, and the health system. Guided by DMSF and DMS, ADPC conducted further desk review of Thailand’s response to COVID-19 for Section 2 of the white paper, including relevant national policies and guidelines and the public health measures implemented.
Section 3 of the white paper on “Strengthening the health system for current and future pandemic response” was drafted through a combination of desk review of relevant resources, documentation of key outputs, and interviews with stakeholders of the Project. ADPC
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