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Mon, 04/04/2011 - 14:49
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Death toll from Thailand’s southern floods reaches 51
BANGKOK, April 4 (TNA) The number of confirmed deaths from Thailand’s southern floods has soared to 51 over the past two weeks, while almost 30,000 others have become sick.
Thai Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit reported the updated tally Monday afternoon, saying that 21 out of the 51 southern flood fatalities were in Nakhon Si Thammarat, 10 in Surat Thani, nine in Krabi, six in Phatthalung, two each in Trang and Chumphon and one in Phang Nga Provinces; while one in Krabi remained missing.
Jurin noted that most of the southern flood deaths were caused by drowning, and that his ministry's mobile medical teams had made 1,365 trips in 10 southern flooded provinces from March 26-April 3 to provide either physical or mental treatments to 29,414 patients. According to the Thai health minister, 60 per cent of the patients suffered from flu, followed by athlete’s foot and rashes; while some 290 of them opting for mental counseling.
The public health minister said that he had sent four more medical teams to provide mental counseling services and treatments for people in the southern flooded areas, as more cases are expected to emerge in the wake of receding inundations in the region caused by public stress from flood-related damage.
Jurin promised that local volunteers of any flood relief mission whose houses were totally destroyed by the ongoing floods will receive a 10,000-baht compensation each from the Thai government; while those hospitalized will receive a 5,000-baht grant each. (TNA)
Thai Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit reported the updated tally Monday afternoon, saying that 21 out of the 51 southern flood fatalities were in Nakhon Si Thammarat, 10 in Surat Thani, nine in Krabi, six in Phatthalung, two each in Trang and Chumphon and one in Phang Nga Provinces; while one in Krabi remained missing.
Jurin noted that most of the southern flood deaths were caused by drowning, and that his ministry's mobile medical teams had made 1,365 trips in 10 southern flooded provinces from March 26-April 3 to provide either physical or mental treatments to 29,414 patients. According to the Thai health minister, 60 per cent of the patients suffered from flu, followed by athlete’s foot and rashes; while some 290 of them opting for mental counseling.
The public health minister said that he had sent four more medical teams to provide mental counseling services and treatments for people in the southern flooded areas, as more cases are expected to emerge in the wake of receding inundations in the region caused by public stress from flood-related damage.
Jurin promised that local volunteers of any flood relief mission whose houses were totally destroyed by the ongoing floods will receive a 10,000-baht compensation each from the Thai government; while those hospitalized will receive a 5,000-baht grant each. (TNA)
