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 Coker
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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