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Tue, 04/12/2011 - 14:21
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Thailand's flood death toll rises to 64
BANGKOK, April 12 (TNA) - Thai Ministry of Public Health reported on Tuesday that confirmed flood fatalities in Thailand's southern region have soared to 64 since March 23, but there had been no outbreak of any communicable disease so far.
Thai Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said that 27 of the total flood fatalities had been recorded in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, followed by 13 in Surat Thani, 12 in Krabi, six in Phattalung, three in Chumphon, two in Trang and one in Phang-nga Province.
Jurin noted that floods have remained in some districts of three southern provinces, including Nakhon Si Thammarat, Phattalung and Surat Thani, and that he had instructed his ministry's Departments of Health and Disease Control to support local public health offices in flood-stricken provinces in rehabilitating affected areas and preventing flood-borne diseases by swiftly eliminating disease carriers.
The Thai health minister said that he had also ordered his ministry's Department of Mental Health to dispatch more teams of psychiatrists to provide counselling services and mental treatments to the southern flood victims, focusing particularly on four risk groups, namely psychiatric patients, the unattended elderly, chronic patients or persons with disabilities and those who have seriously suffered from a loss in their family or severe damage to their home and other property, as more than 100 flood victims had been found to be at risk of committing suicide due to loss and damage. (TNA)
Thai Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said that 27 of the total flood fatalities had been recorded in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, followed by 13 in Surat Thani, 12 in Krabi, six in Phattalung, three in Chumphon, two in Trang and one in Phang-nga Province.
Jurin noted that floods have remained in some districts of three southern provinces, including Nakhon Si Thammarat, Phattalung and Surat Thani, and that he had instructed his ministry's Departments of Health and Disease Control to support local public health offices in flood-stricken provinces in rehabilitating affected areas and preventing flood-borne diseases by swiftly eliminating disease carriers.
The Thai health minister said that he had also ordered his ministry's Department of Mental Health to dispatch more teams of psychiatrists to provide counselling services and mental treatments to the southern flood victims, focusing particularly on four risk groups, namely psychiatric patients, the unattended elderly, chronic patients or persons with disabilities and those who have seriously suffered from a loss in their family or severe damage to their home and other property, as more than 100 flood victims had been found to be at risk of committing suicide due to loss and damage. (TNA)
