Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome
(left) leads guests in some pre-meeting exercises.
Warunya Thongrod
Pattaya officials began hearing from community leaders on how
the city can better address health problems at the first Pattaya Health
Plan Project meeting.
Representatives from 13 of the city’s 42 communities met Feb. 17 with
Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome and Supaporn Cherdchaiphum, director of the
Public Health Department on spending priorities for Pattaya’s Health
Security Fund.
Started under the aegis of the National Health
Security Office, the fund hopes to provide health service such as
disease prevention, primary health care and rehabilitation. Five groups
are targeted: mothers and children, the elderly, disabled, at-risk
workers and those with prolonged illnesses.
Health plans mapped out in meetings with all the 42 communities will be
used as a tool to plan the budget.
Itthiphol said that for the Health Security Fund management to succeed
according to its objectives, there must be a data system and plans to
use as a guideline on problem solving and the operation directing. These
community health plans are to develop the initial health works and for
requesting the budget. Later more strategies will be developed toward
actual and sustainable problem solving for a better quality of life for
Pattaya residents.
