THURSDAY, March 28, 2024
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Govt offers Bt5m in flood aid to Myanmar

Govt offers Bt5m in flood aid to Myanmar

THE GOVERNMENT will today offer Myanmar Bt5 million as financial aid as the country struggles with floods, deputy government spokesman Maj-General Weerachon Sukhonthapati-pak said yesterday.

Myanmar’s ambassador to Thailand will also meet government representatives to provide updates on the flood situation and people’s needs, so help can be provided accordingly. 
A donation centre has also been set up at the Myanmar-Thailand border in Chiang Rai province to facilitate the delivery of help to flood victims in the neighbouring country.
The centre was established through a joint collaboration between the Thai-Myanmar Township Border Committee (TBC) and the Thai-Myanmar Cultural and Economic Council’s Chiang Rai office. 
“We will direct donations of food and relief items from both the government and the private sector via TBC officials in Myanmar,” Major Pongtorn Panpikorn said yesterday in his capacity as TBC coordination chief. 
Meanwhile, the Thai Public Health Ministry sent 30,000 sets of basic medicines to flood victims in Mae Hong Son’s Sop Moei district yesterday, and reserved another 500,000 such sets as backup, a senior official said. 
The ministry’s deputy permanent secretary, Dr Amnuay Gagina, said he had also told the Mae Hong Son public health office to continuously dispatch mobile medical teams to help residents as well as monitor and effectively control diseases such as leptospirosis, diarrhoea and dengue fever. 
Though no medical facilities have been affected so far, he said he has still instructed low-lying facilities to move their supplies and tools to higher ground and set up mobile clinics and temporary health posts as a precaution. Those facing a medical emergency can call the 1669 hotline or contact doctors nearby for help, he added. 
With the Northeast struggling with floods for a sixth day in a row, some areas in Bung Kan’s So Phisai district were under 2 metres of water, while a section of the Bung Kan-Pan Lam Road in Muang district was impassable for small vehicles. Provincial Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Office yesterday sent a boat with 100 relief bags to the district yesterday.
 
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