To survive and prevent hospital stockpiling, producers may need to limit deliveries to 50% of orders to ensure supplies are distributed fairly to more than 5,000 hospitals and healthcare facilities nationwide, including 1,700 large hospitals and local health stations.<\/p>\n
Jarudech said short-term risk management should begin with delivery quotas, as some hospitals have already increased stockpiling. He urged priority delivery for operating theatres and emergency rooms, cooperation from hospitals to reduce long-term stockholding, and temporary price stability for as long as possible to minimise the impact on patients.<\/p>\n
He called on the government to shift quickly from regulator to supporter. The Customs Department and Food and Drug Administration should open Fast Track channels for urgent raw material imports, while the FDA should certify genuine medical device manufacturers to reduce duplicated paperwork and temporarily ease full-scale inspections.<\/p>\n
He also urged the Public Health Ministry to prepare an urgent roadmap and feedback channel to monitor shortages at operational level, while adjusting procurement rules to reflect real costs more flexibly.<\/p>\n
The Industry Ministry and Department of Industrial Promotion should set up a special expert team to inspect and improve production efficiency, reduce losses in the manufacturing process, and approve cost-reduction support without waiting for the October budget cycle, he said.<\/p>\n
Jarudech\u00a0added that Thailand must accelerate domestic production to replace Chinese products that are becoming scarce and price-volatile, while improving efficiency to keep prices commercially viable and competitive.<\/p>\n
With government mechanisms constrained by time, he said private manufacturers must also overhaul logistics through a \u201cshared logistics\u201d model.<\/p>\n
At present, suppliers deliver medical devices and products to public hospitals separately, driving up transport costs. Jarudech\u00a0said a centralised system could allow several firms delivering to hospitals in the same province to combine shipments in one vehicle, spreading fixed costs and reducing the impact of higher fuel prices.<\/p>\n
He said the government should act as the central coordinator for such a system, as medical devices are not just commercial products but life-saving supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To survive and prevent hospital stockpiling, producers may need to limit deliveries to 50% of orders to ensure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[9,18,15912,135,475,474,19,17,52725,21723,94183,24693,391],"class_list":{"0":"post-469370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-energy-crisis","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-health-care","13":"tag-healthcare","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-manufacturers","17":"tag-medical-devices","18":"tag-medical-supplies","19":"tag-shortage","20":"tag-thailand"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116521579673813584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}