‘Healthcare focus should be on quality’
Authorities are being urged to better distribute the healthcare workforce with an emphasis on quality rather than quantity. Experts at a National Health Commission seminar said on Monday that there might be an oversupply of doctors within the next 10 years, and called for a well-planned road map to solve problems. They also suggested that multidiscipline health promotion teams should be set up and measures taken to shift people’s attitudes to encourage them to proactively take care of their own health before seeking doctors’ attention. NHC deputy secretary-general Dr Weerasak Putthasri said global changes would make the country’s healthcare human resources and service management more complicated and challenging in the next 20 years. He said a well-planned road map to support the ageing society should be in place and the inequity in health service access should be resolved.
