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More medical supplies sent to Thailand's flood-hit provinces
BANGKOK, October 15 (TNA) - Volunteers, with more medical supplies, left Bangkok Saturday morning for five central provinces which have been battered by severe floods; while Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawara announced that she will request the United States to send 26 Chinook helicopters, equipped with scanners, to help search for people stranded in flooded areas.
The prime minister and Public Health Minister Wittaya Buranasiri jointly presided over a ceremony to dispatch the 40,000 public health volunteers, with some 10,000 sets of medical and relief supplies, from the government's flood relief centre at Bangkok's Don Mueang Airport to the five flood-hit central provinces, including Ayutthaya, Lop Buri, Sing Buri, Pathum Thani and Ang Thong.
According to the Thai public health minister, mobile medical volunteers sent to flooded areas have detected nearly 516,750 patients so far, most of whom have suffered from athlete foot, muscle ache, cold, skin diseases and headache.
Yingluck later held a meeting on the flooding situation with Justice Minister Police General Pracha Promnog, who is also chief of the government-run flood relief centre at Don Mueang Airport, as well as military leaders and senior police officers--during which the Pheu Thai premier said that she will seek Washington's assistance to send the 26 Chinook helicopters to support Thailand's flood relief mission. (TNA)
The prime minister and Public Health Minister Wittaya Buranasiri jointly presided over a ceremony to dispatch the 40,000 public health volunteers, with some 10,000 sets of medical and relief supplies, from the government's flood relief centre at Bangkok's Don Mueang Airport to the five flood-hit central provinces, including Ayutthaya, Lop Buri, Sing Buri, Pathum Thani and Ang Thong.
According to the Thai public health minister, mobile medical volunteers sent to flooded areas have detected nearly 516,750 patients so far, most of whom have suffered from athlete foot, muscle ache, cold, skin diseases and headache.
Yingluck later held a meeting on the flooding situation with Justice Minister Police General Pracha Promnog, who is also chief of the government-run flood relief centre at Don Mueang Airport, as well as military leaders and senior police officers--during which the Pheu Thai premier said that she will seek Washington's assistance to send the 26 Chinook helicopters to support Thailand's flood relief mission. (TNA)
