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Mobile medical units go all
out to help flood-hit people
Mobile medical units and volunteers in flooded
provinces nationwide were instructed to work to their maximum capacity
in providing physical and mental health checks for the public, according
to Public Health Minister Pradit Sintavanarong.
He said health officials were told to specially care for the elderly,
children, pregnant women, disabled people and patients with chronic
diseases and to educate people on prevention of flood-related contagious
diseases.
He said post-flood rehabilitation was also necessary in provinces where
floods have receded such as Chumphon, Kanchanaburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan,
Kalasin and Nakhon Ratchasima.
Residents should clean up their communities and fresh markets to prevent
diseases which may have come with dirty water, he said.
He said mobile medical units have made 504 visits to various communities
and treated 26,016 patients at 18,000 homes while the Public Health
Ministry has delivered 80,000 medical packages to flood-hit provinces
and reserved 120,000 sets for future distribution.
The Government Pharmaceutical Organization was ordered to produce
300,000 more medical packages.
He said 35 medical service centers have been negatively impacted by
floods and some were relocated to become more accessible to the public.
(MCOT)
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