{"id":987522025,"date":"2021-04-20T03:10:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T02:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/news\/universal-coverage-scheme-10-outstanding-accomplishments-in-2020\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:35:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:35:42","slug":"universal-coverage-scheme-10-outstanding-accomplishments-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/news\/universal-coverage-scheme-10-outstanding-accomplishments-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Coverage Scheme: 10 outstanding accomplishments in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Health Security Office (NHSO), Thai government\u2019s independent agency overseeing Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS) despite the COVID 19 crisis&nbsp;initiated new health programs, health system response and social innovations that strengthen health system in 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NHSO has mobilized health finance from UCS fund, equivalent to 4.28 billion baht in total, to health emergency response, allowing public hospitals to provide free COVID-19 screening, testing, quarantine, and treatment to Thais.<\/p>\n<p>Following the NHSO request, Thai cabinet approved the increase of UCS budget from 191 billion baht in 2020 to 195 billion baht in 2021, equivalent to 2.2% increase.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These among others are the major financial progress made in health in Thailand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article published in the Thai Government website <a href=\"http:\/\/eng.nhso.go.th\/view\/1\/DescriptionNews\/UCS-10-outstanding-accomplishments-in-2020\/267\/EN-US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Imgae credits: <a href=\"http:\/\/eng.nhso.go.th\/view\/1\/DescriptionNews\/UCS-10-outstanding-accomplishments-in-2020\/267\/EN-US\">NHSO Thailand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Health Security Office (NHSO), Thai government\u2019s independent agency overseeing Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS) despite the COVID 19 crisis&nbsp;initiated new health programs, health system response and social innovations that strengthen health system in 2020.&nbsp; NHSO has mobilized health finance from UCS fund, equivalent to 4.28 billion baht in total, to health emergency response, allowing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987531571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[2349],"tags":[123,124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987522025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987531571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987522025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987522025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987522025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}