Lessons learned from public sector management in Thailand's coronavirus disease 2019 crisis

Abstract

The 2020-2021 year is an unkind period for all societies who have to face the Covid-19 pandemic, the impact resulted in the loss of human resources and caused the slowdown of the economic system. We have a new way of living to prevent ourselves from the infection. However, the most important is the Government management system which should support in prevention and treatment of people and also restore an economic system. This article will be discussed the situation of the COVID-19 outbreak in Thailand with a perspective on the quick awareness management should be and minimizing the process of bureaucracy system to be more flexible. In addition, this article suggested collaborating with the private sector and volunteer groups to operate some parts of the system such as vaccine distribution to achieve the goal of New Public Management to become a modern government that attends to the public interest.