PATHUM THANI, Aug 16 (TNA) – The field hospital of Thammasat University will use up all its stock of COVID-19 vaccine doses on Aug 17, according to its director.
Assoc Prof Dr Chatchai Mingmalairak, director of the field hospital of Thammasat University, said the field hospital did not receive another lot of AstraZeneca vaccine doses on Aug 14 as scheduled and thus had to borrow 5,000 doses from Vajira Hospital for administration with vulnerable groups of people. The 5,000 doses would be enough for use until Aug 17.
Normally the field hospital received the vaccine from the Department of Disease Control through authorities of the Pathum Thani province and daily inoculated about 2,500 people against COVID-19. If the delayed delivery of the vaccine continued, the field hospital would have to postpone the vaccination, Assoc Prof Dr Chatchai said.
He said that Thammasat University Hospital received 1,500 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer for administration as the third jab of its frontline medical personnel. The booster inoculation already started and would finish on Aug 18, he said. (TNA)
