Donated virus testing facility to Japanese hospital of Japanese Chamber of Commerce in Thailand to local hospital at 6:39 on May 15

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In Thailand, where many Japanese-affiliated companies are operating, the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the local community donated a virus testing facility to a hospital near the capital Bangkok in order to help prevent new coronaviruses.

This laboratory is made up of over 1,700 Japanese companies in Thailand.The Japanese Chamber of Commerce in Bangkok has donated approximately 7.8 million yen in Japanese yen to a hospital near Bangkok that accepts patients infected with the new coronavirus. It was built on the premises.

The one-story building has three rooms for sample collection, and medical staff can work from a place partitioned by a transparent acrylic board.

In Thailand, the infection of the new coronavirus has spread rapidly since the middle of March, but as a result of measures such as the ban on store operations, the number of newly confirmed infected people has decreased, It became zero for the first time in two months.

Katsuichi Ogiwara, President of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce in Bangkok, said, "I would like you to take preventive measures in preparation for the second wave. I thought that it would be useful to build such a facility and made a donation."

At this hospital, patients who need surgery due to another illness are also inspected to prevent nosocomial infections, so the director of the hospital Pyrosie Boonkonchun told the donated facility `` A doctor enters without protective clothes and masks It's easier and cheaper to get a sample, "he said.