The Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases Clinical Center was established by the Executive Committee of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Center, which recognized the importance of new and re-emerging infectious diseases. These diseases require management and preparedness in case of an outbreak. The committee approved the center as part of King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital under the Thai Red Cross Society, with the mission of providing care and treatment for patients with both new and re-emerging infectious diseases. The center also plans and seeks preventive measures to control the spread of infections. It conducts training and simulation exercises to prepare for possible outbreaks of emerging and re-emerging diseases.
Starting in 2017, the third and fourth floors of the Chongkolnee Watanawong Building were renovated for the center’s operations, which are divided into five units:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases Office (EID Office)
- Established on April 23, 2019
- Respiratory Control Clinic (AI Clinic)
- Established on April 23, 2019
- Emerging Infectious Diseases Clinic (EID Clinic)
- Established on January 1, 2020
- Emerging Infectious Diseases Ward (EID Unit)
- Established on January 1, 2020
- Emerging Infectious Diseases Clinical Center Laboratory (LAB EID CC)
- Established on September 7, 2021
Vision
We aim to control the disease spreading/new disease species that are spreading faster and more severely by clinical work or patient services by building preparedness, medical equipment and operations for more effective emerging infectious diseases as well as disease spreading prevention to other patients and medical personnel.
Mission
- To provide standard medical care to patients with emerging and recurrent diseases and disease spreading prevention.
- To plan, train and hold emerging infectious diseases preparedness.
- To educate the public, medical personnel and society about emerging infectious diseases.
- To create a network of medical care for patients with emerging and recurrent diseases.
- To create R&D projects for medical care and disease control.
Structure and Sub-Units.
- TRC EIDCC
- Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases Clinical Center
- EID Clinic
- Emerging Infectious Diseases Clinic
- AI Clinic
- Airborne Infection Clinic
- EID Unit
- Emerging Infectious Diseases Unit
- LAB EID CC
- Laboratory Emerging Infectious Diseases Clinical Center
Service
fectious Diseases Clinical Center to provide clinical service and an emerging infectious diseases ward for medical care preparedness to the patients suspected of having an emerging infectious disease.
Apart from medical innovation in emerging and recurrent diseases, to create knowledge and understanding of infectious disease control for the hospital personnel is the major mission to develop Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases Clinical Center as the prototype medical service in patients with an infectious disease to other medical institutes all through Thailand for joint pandemic control in the future.
