Effectiveness of driving marijuana policy for medical benefits in Nakhon Phanom Province

Abstract

This study is  aimed at studying the effectiveness of medical cannabis operations. Nakhon Phanom Province The population to be studied is all hospitals in Nakhon Phanom Province. Between October 2021-September 2022 by collecting data from Health Data Center (HDC) at https://hdc.moph.go.th and reporting results of operations from All hospitals in Nakhon Phanom Province. This is an descriptive research study.    The statistics used to analyze the data are frequency, percentage, mean, maximum and minimum values.

          The research results found that Nakhon Phanom Province has the total number of patients receiving  medical cannabis treatment increased from 2021 to 1,888 cases, 3,029 times higher than the target of 510 cases, 894 times, and palliative care patients receiving medical marijuana treatment 26.16 percent higher than the target. (5 percent) and is the number 1 achievement in the country. The success factor is There is a service plan team to supervise and monitor work development at both the provincial and district levels. Proactively searching for Palliative Care patients, having an action plan according to the service plan and an adequate cannabis medicine reserve plan. And there are modern/Thai traditional medicine doctors who prescribe cannabis medicine that covers and cooperates.

Keywords: policy, cannabis, medical, palliative