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Siriraj Hospital is calling for blood donations as its blood bank is running out of supplies since people have not been donating blood due to rising Covid-19 infections.

Hospitals across the nation should be prepared to deal with a new Covid-19 wave, the Rural Doctors Society (RDS) said in a Facebook post on Monday citing the Public Health Ministry’s recent announcement.

A respiratory disease expert at Siriraj Hospital said on Monday that the government was greatly underreporting the number of new Covid infections, saying daily new cases were estimated at about 50,000.

Work on the Phran Nok-Phutthamonthon Sai 4 Road connecting Bangkok to Nakhon Pathom has been accelerated in a bid to ease bad congestion on Borommaratchachonnani Road.

Cannabis can impact the nervous system and liver, apart from affecting mental health, an expert at Siriraj Hospital’s Faculty of Medicine said on Wednesday.

His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Her Majesty Queen Suthida Bajrasudhabimalalakshana presided over the opening ceremony of the Navamindrapobitr 84th Anniversary Building at Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok Noi district at 5.18pm on Wednesday.

Chinese tech giant Huawei is planning to expand its 5G smart hospital project to other hospitals after its initial project in Siriraj Hospital achieved success.

Long Covid-19, or Post-Covid-19, conditions can occur in 15-30 per cent of patients who have recovered, with symptoms lasting from 4 to 12 weeks after infection, Siriraj Hospital dean of the Faculty of Medicine Dr Prasit Watanapa said on Tuesday.

Siriraj Hospital has been successful in carrying out an intestine transplant for the first time in Thailand at a cost of 1.8 million baht under the universal healthcare scheme.

The Siriraj Hospital has indefinitely closed its emergency services for general cases to renovate its emergency ward, the hospital announced.

Those who received two Sinovac or Sinopharm shots have been advised to get a viral vector or mRNA vaccine booster, while a fourth jab could even be necessary.

Siriraj Hospital announced on Monday that the hospital would not allow any visiting of inpatients from January 4 onward in a bid to curb the spreading of Covid-19.