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Thai PM sets up new relief center for flood victims
BANGKOK, October 7 (TNA) - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra convened relevant agencies on Friday to discuss the country's ongoing flooding crisis and to set up a new flood relief center at Bangkok's Don Muang Airport to provide assistance for local flood victims.
Yingluck said that the new relief center, in which she is the director, will function as a “war room” for the country's overall flood relief and as an information center on the updated flooding situation, acknowledging that the new center will also work out long-term flood solutions for the country.
During the meeting, the Pheu Thai premier was also briefed on updates over critical inundations in the country's central Ayutthaya Province and she asked all concerned agencies to deploy at least one representative to work at the new flood relief center for effective coordination, noting that a previously formed flood relief coordination center now becomes part of the new center.
Thai Science and Technology Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi said that the government has tried to protect important economic locations, especially commercial areas and two major industrial estates, in Ayutthaya to maintain international investors’ confidence although floodwater has already hit another industrial estate in the central Thai province, and that the new flood relief center, located at Don Muang Airport, could serve aircraft and helicopters; so it facilitates rescue and relief missions for flood victims in all affected areas.
Meanwhile, the Thai Ministry of Information and Communication Technology is installing a hotline center for the new flood relief center to receive flood-related complaints from flood victims (TNA)
Yingluck said that the new relief center, in which she is the director, will function as a “war room” for the country's overall flood relief and as an information center on the updated flooding situation, acknowledging that the new center will also work out long-term flood solutions for the country.
During the meeting, the Pheu Thai premier was also briefed on updates over critical inundations in the country's central Ayutthaya Province and she asked all concerned agencies to deploy at least one representative to work at the new flood relief center for effective coordination, noting that a previously formed flood relief coordination center now becomes part of the new center.
Thai Science and Technology Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi said that the government has tried to protect important economic locations, especially commercial areas and two major industrial estates, in Ayutthaya to maintain international investors’ confidence although floodwater has already hit another industrial estate in the central Thai province, and that the new flood relief center, located at Don Muang Airport, could serve aircraft and helicopters; so it facilitates rescue and relief missions for flood victims in all affected areas.
Meanwhile, the Thai Ministry of Information and Communication Technology is installing a hotline center for the new flood relief center to receive flood-related complaints from flood victims (TNA)
