SURIN, 5 September 2010 (NNT) – Over 2,300 residents of the northeastern province of Surin have been infected with dengue fever, while the spread of epidemic remains rampant nationwide. Surin Public Health officer MD Sa-Ard Weeracharoen in Surin has disclosed that the outbreak of dengue has spread to 17 districts of the province. The number […]
THAILAND – Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is still healthy but he keeps quiet as does not want to be linked with political issues, people close to him said yesterday. Thaksin’s brother-in-law Somchai Wongsawat – also a former prime minister – said Thaksin had greeted him by telephone on Sunday. Thaksin was not somewhere near […]
BANGKOK, 29 August 2010 (NNT) – The Ministry of Public Health has asked people to take extra precautions against flood-related diseases during the rainy season, and to keep themselves warm to prevent seasonal flu infection. Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit stated after the opening ceremony of a new building at Yasothon hospital that it is […]
His intense silence has fired rumors about ‘intensive care’. Is Thaksin in ICU (Intensive Care Unit)? Or is it just some wild rumor promoted by some of his foes? Manager Weekly today put Thaksin Shinawatra on the cover again with a simple headline: “ICU”? The story inside repeats the speculation about Thaksin’s health. But some […]
BANGKOK. 25 August 2010 (NNT) – The Public Health Ministry warns of a new epidemic “Melioidosis” outbreak during the rainy season as six deaths and over a thousand people infected with the disease were reported across the country. Mr Jurin Laksanawisit, the Public Health Minister, stated that Melioidosis was a bacterial infection from soil or […]
BANGKOK, Aug 18 – Almost 1.5 million foreign workers currently live in Thailand, most of whom are not legally registered with the authorities. Speaking at a national seminar on developing public health services for foreign workers, Deputy Permanent-Secretary of Public Health, Dr Siriwat Tiptaradol, said that according to statistics from the Ministry of Labour as […]
Thailand’s Public Health Ministry on Tuesday described 10 more citizenry passed away last week of the A or H1N1 virus, adding the country’s bell from the swine influenza virus to 245. Bangkok Post’s site reported that the ministry’s agency from Epidemiology of the Disease Control Department stated the overall dying toll was chronic for the […]
Thailand’s health minister recently announced that more than 50,000 citizens have been infected with dengue fever so far this year, resulting in 63 deaths. Deputy Public Health Minister Pansiri Kulanartsiri told Health.AsiaOne.Com that the dengue fever epidemic hitting the country has raised infection rates 83 percent from this same period last year. According to Health.AsiaOne.Com, […]
