Bangkok: Less than 10 days after the Prayut Chan-o-cha government implemented the Universal Coverage for Emergency Patients (UCEP) scheme which requires private hospitals to accept emergency patients within 72 hours, Natee Sarawaree suffered a cerebral haemorrhage after a fall. Without consciousness, he was rushed to the nearest private hospital, \r\nA transfer to the state hospital he was registered with was ruled out as it was deemed too risky. And under the new scheme the hospital is prohibited from rejecting a patient in the red category. |
