Social development minister concerned over haze-affected southerners

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BANGKOK, 8 October 2015  – Social Development and Human Security Minister Adul Sangsingkaew said the health of many people in southern Thailand has been adversely affected by haze from brushfires on Sumatra Island, Indonesia.

That referred to risk groups of people including children, women, the elderly and the disabled for whom the ministry’s officials were instructed to prepare to provide assistance on urgent basis