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Fri, 10/28/2011 - 07:14
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Authorities to crack down thefts in flood-hit areas
BANGKOK, October 28 (TNA) - The government's Flood Relief Operations Centre (FROC) has ordered authorities concerned, including police and provincial governors, to take good care of people in flood-hit areas, including preventing and cracking down thefts.
FROC Director Police General Pracha Promnog, who is also Justice Minister, said on Thursday that the move, covering strict patrols, followed several public complaints, aimed to ease hardships of the flood victims.
Thai Deputy Public Health Minister Torphong Chaiyasarn acknowledged, on the other hand, that his ministry has dispatched medical teams, including psychiatrists, to take care of people in flood-stricken areas who are suffering from flood-borne diseases and illnesses, including depressed cases which have reached over 5,000 since the ongoing flooding crisis first hit the country in late July, about 800 of them are even at risk of committing suicide.
Meanwhile, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has ordered local authorities, including those in provincial areas, to report problems and demands of flood-affected people in their jurisdiction to the government for further action and assistance and to send some 4,000 boats to support the government's relief operations in Bangkok and adjacent provinces, if their provinces have not been flooded or inundations have already receded; while Army Commander-in-Chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha insisted that the Thai military will continue to work together with all other parties concerned to fully support the government to take care of people in all flood-hit and flood-prone areas, including evacuations of them to safe grounds. (TNA)
FROC Director Police General Pracha Promnog, who is also Justice Minister, said on Thursday that the move, covering strict patrols, followed several public complaints, aimed to ease hardships of the flood victims.
Thai Deputy Public Health Minister Torphong Chaiyasarn acknowledged, on the other hand, that his ministry has dispatched medical teams, including psychiatrists, to take care of people in flood-stricken areas who are suffering from flood-borne diseases and illnesses, including depressed cases which have reached over 5,000 since the ongoing flooding crisis first hit the country in late July, about 800 of them are even at risk of committing suicide.
Meanwhile, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has ordered local authorities, including those in provincial areas, to report problems and demands of flood-affected people in their jurisdiction to the government for further action and assistance and to send some 4,000 boats to support the government's relief operations in Bangkok and adjacent provinces, if their provinces have not been flooded or inundations have already receded; while Army Commander-in-Chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha insisted that the Thai military will continue to work together with all other parties concerned to fully support the government to take care of people in all flood-hit and flood-prone areas, including evacuations of them to safe grounds. (TNA)
