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Volume 15, Number 3—March 2009
Research

Capacity of Thailand to Contain an Emerging Influenza Pandemic

Weerasak Putthasri, Jongkol Lertiendumrong, Pornthip Chompook, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, and Richard CokerComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand (W. Putthasri, J. Lertiendumrong, P. Chompook, V. Tangcharoensathien); London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK (R. Coker)

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Table 2

National resource gaps for pandemic influenza control if perfect mobilization and imperfect mobilization in WHO phase 6, assuming scenario 3 occurs simultaneously in all provinces, Thailand*

Selected resources National gaps
Assuming perfect mobilization Assuming imperfect mobilization
Infrastructure (beds), assuming care limited to these
Negative-pressure rooms (single bed) −1,015 −1,052
Negative-pressure rooms (single bed) + isolation beds −225 −517
Negative-pressure rooms (single bed) + Isolation beds + single-occupancy room beds 0 0
Negative-pressure rooms (single bed) + isolation beds + single-occupancy room beds 
 + ICU beds 0 0
Negative-pressure rooms (single bed) + Isolation beds + single-occupancy room beds 
 + ICU beds + general medicine beds 0 0
Negative-pressure rooms (single bed) + Isolation beds + single-occupancy room beds 
 + ICU beds + general medicine beds + other beds (OB/GYN, surgical, etc.) 0 0
Children’s beds
NA
NA
Personnel
SRRT personnel 0 0
Internal medicine physicians −40 −195
Pediatricians NA NA
Radiologists 0 −5
Pathologists 0 −9
Other physicians (general practitioners, surgeons, OB/GYN, etc.) 0 0
Critical care nurses −1,640 −1,679
General nurses 0 0
Health officer in health center† 0 0
Village health volunteers†
0
0
Materials
Ambulances 0 0
Patient transportation vehicles 0 0
Portable radiography machines 0 0
Adult (Bird’s and volume) respirator −1,023 −1,166
Children’s volume respirator NA NA
Vital sign machine 0 −365
Oximeter −1,221 −1,317
Disposable gowns −16,6041 −166,041
N95 masks
Surgical masks −59,063 −120,186
Plastic face shields 0 −668
Goggles 0 0
Surgical gloves 0 −39,242
Surgical hats −88,665 −119,239
Rapid test kit for influenza 0 0
Swab bags 0 −59
Oseltamivir tablets 0 −3,717
Viral transport media 0 0
Body bags 0 −373
Lime (10-kg bags) 0 −716
Chlorine (50-kg bags) 0 −18
Sodium hypochlorite (1 L) 0 −216

*WHO, World Health Organization; ICU, intensive care unit; OB/GYN, obstetricians/gynecologists; SRRT, surveillance and rapid response; NA, not applicable: no child cases in 3 scenarios. 0 means that there was no shortfall in the resource item. Scenario 3 assumed human-to-human transmission resulting in a substantial number of cases.
†Excludes data from Bangkok.

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