Mobile units treat over 720,000 people

Public Health Minister Wittaya Buranasiri yesterday said 200 medical mobile units were dispatched per day and so far they had treated a total of 720,128 patients who fell ill due to the flooding condition, mostly from Hong Kong Foot.
Of the flood victims in 37 provinces, 97,520 people suffered from stress – 4,202 of them were highly stressed and 5,882 were depressed and 807 were deemed at risk of suicide, he said.
Wittaya said two medical units were added in Nonthaburi; one at the Bang Plu intersection in Bang Bua Thong district with five beds, four doctors and eight nurses and the other of about the same size at Bang Yai district.