By The Sunday Nation
Published on September 28, 2008
Over 180,000 flood victims fell ill from water-borne diseases in the past 16 days, Deputy Public Health Minister Wicharn Meenchainant said yesterday.
Meanwhile, the weather bureau warned the lower northern region of more heavy rains from yesterday until Wednesday.
Wicharn reported that from September 11 to 26, the 960 mobile medical teams had treated 187,242 patients, 28,240 of whom suffered from Athlete's foot, 28,968 had flu, and 11,868 developed skin rashes.
Urging people to pay attention to food and drinking water cleanliness, he said officials had distributed one million black bags for flood victims to use as "mobile toilets" to prevent water pollution and subsequent disease outbreaks.
Wicharn's comment was made during his visit to give 900 relief bags to flood victims in Prachin Buri's Sri Maha Pho and Kabin Buri districts. Some 32,618 people were affected by flooding conditions that ravaged six districts of this central province, with four people drowning.
In an interview before visiting flood victims in Prachin Buri and Chanthaburi, Interior Minister Kowit Watana yesterday said the floodwaters in Phitsanulok, Lop Buri, Ayutthaya, Chaiyaphum, Prachin Buri, and Khon Kaen had subsided.
Only Lop Buri would need nearly one month to drain floodwater out, he said. "Each province has a Bt50-million budget to initially assist the flood-affected residents," he said.
He added that flood damages would be assessed after the water dried up, and the government would provide further assistance to the victims.
In Chaiyaphum, officials were on a 24-hour watch for floods and landslides after many 700-metre-long, one-foot-wide and one-metre-deep cracks were found on the earth's surface on Phu Lankha Mountain Range in Muang district, triggering fears that the nearby Lam Pathao Dam might be affected.
Locals were advised not to fish near the dam front pending the investigation but Chaiyaphujm deputy governor Nimit Chanwimol said the province could control the situation and give residents timely warning. He urged the public not to panic.
In related news, the Northern Meteorology Centre in Chiang Mai warned residents living near mountains and water sources of flooding as heavy rains were forecast for Phichit, Tak, Uttaradit and Phitsanulok from yesterday to Wednesday.
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Published on September 28, 2008
Over 180,000 flood victims fell ill from water-borne diseases in the past 16 days, Deputy Public Health Minister Wicharn Meenchainant said yesterday.
Meanwhile, the weather bureau warned the lower northern region of more heavy rains from yesterday until Wednesday.
Wicharn reported that from September 11 to 26, the 960 mobile medical teams had treated 187,242 patients, 28,240 of whom suffered from Athlete's foot, 28,968 had flu, and 11,868 developed skin rashes.
Urging people to pay attention to food and drinking water cleanliness, he said officials had distributed one million black bags for flood victims to use as "mobile toilets" to prevent water pollution and subsequent disease outbreaks.
Wicharn's comment was made during his visit to give 900 relief bags to flood victims in Prachin Buri's Sri Maha Pho and Kabin Buri districts. Some 32,618 people were affected by flooding conditions that ravaged six districts of this central province, with four people drowning.
In an interview before visiting flood victims in Prachin Buri and Chanthaburi, Interior Minister Kowit Watana yesterday said the floodwaters in Phitsanulok, Lop Buri, Ayutthaya, Chaiyaphum, Prachin Buri, and Khon Kaen had subsided.
Only Lop Buri would need nearly one month to drain floodwater out, he said. "Each province has a Bt50-million budget to initially assist the flood-affected residents," he said.
He added that flood damages would be assessed after the water dried up, and the government would provide further assistance to the victims.
In Chaiyaphum, officials were on a 24-hour watch for floods and landslides after many 700-metre-long, one-foot-wide and one-metre-deep cracks were found on the earth's surface on Phu Lankha Mountain Range in Muang district, triggering fears that the nearby Lam Pathao Dam might be affected.
Locals were advised not to fish near the dam front pending the investigation but Chaiyaphujm deputy governor Nimit Chanwimol said the province could control the situation and give residents timely warning. He urged the public not to panic.
In related news, the Northern Meteorology Centre in Chiang Mai warned residents living near mountains and water sources of flooding as heavy rains were forecast for Phichit, Tak, Uttaradit and Phitsanulok from yesterday to Wednesday.
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