{"id":34448,"date":"2021-07-27T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/27\/thailands-hospitals-under-pressure-as-covid-crisis-deepens"},"modified":"2021-07-27T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T00:00:18","slug":"thailands-hospitals-under-pressure-as-covid-crisis-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34448","title":{"rendered":"Thailand\u2019s hospitals under pressure as Covid crisis deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors forced to treat patients in car parks while others turned away as no beds available<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s worsening Covid outbreak is placing intense pressure on hospitals, forcing doctors to treat patients in parking lots and turn away people who are severely ill.<\/p>\n<p>The country was widely praised for its Covid response last year, when it maintained one of the lowest caseloads in the world. However, there is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/19\/thailand-police-fire-rubber-bullets-at-protesters-as-covid-failures-fuel-anti-government-anger\">growing public anger over the government\u2019s recent handling of the pandemic,<\/a> including its slow and chaotic vaccination campaign.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/27\/thailands-hospitals-under-pressure-as-covid-crisis-deepens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors forced to treat patients in car parks while others turned away as no beds availableCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThailand\u2019s worsening Covid outbreak is placing intense pressure on hospitals, forcing doctors to trea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,93,565],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-thailand","category-vaccines-and-immunisation"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34449,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34448\/revisions\/34449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}