October 20th, 2006, 13:55
The Nation
A man shows tiny millipedes taken from tap water in Lop BuriтАЩs Phattana Nikhom district yesterday. Several residents have come down with diarrhoea and other disorders after drinking the muddy and foul-smelling water.
The Public Health Ministry yesterday provided 20 pre-fabricated toilets to 200 flood-affected families in Uthai Thani.
The knock-down toilets - each worth Bt3,000 - were for families forced to leave their flooded homes and camp on the roadside in Muang district. The toilets were also aimed at preventing disease outbreaks by water polluted with human faeces.
Ten tambons of Uthai Thani's Muang district were the hardest-hit with 6,000 families affected by 41 diarrhoea cases and 3,000 suffering from fungal diseases.
Uthai Thani Hospital has provided 2,000 kits containing skin medicine for distribution, and planned to give away whistles, emergency lights and batteries to 300 families.
The Education Ministry, which has seen 598 of its schools damaged in 22 provinces, yesterday morning sent convoys of college students on seven routes to flood-hit Ayutthaya, Sing Buri, Angthong, Suphan Buri, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi and Prachin Buri. Each caravan carried 1,000 sets of household supplies, food and drinking water. Nonthaburi and Prachin Buri received 500 sets each, and five flat-bottom boats and 13 floating toilets were dispatched to Angthong.
Vocational Education Com-mission secretary general Weerasak Wongsombat said students had built 40 floating toilets, at Bt6,000 each, and provided five 200-litre oil drums containing microbes to consume waste.
Another flood-relief caravan organised by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), the Metropolitan Police and the Supreme Command Headquarters left yesterday morning. The 11-truck caravan carried 12,000 sets of household supplies to assist flood victims in Pathum Thani, Angthong, Ayutthaya and Sing Buri.
Today, Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayodhin and Supreme Commander General Boonsrang Niumpradit will present more relief items to the four provinces' governors. Yesterday, Apirak provided 1,000 relief bags from the Princess Pa Foundation to affected Chao Phya riverside residents in Bangkok.
The government has invited the private and public sector to donate money to assist residents in 46 flood-affected provinces via a Government Savings Bank account number 00-0025-20-014972-3 or call 02-281-4130.
Many people yesterday went to make donations at Bangkok's Wat Bovorniwet on the invitation of the Supreme Patriarch.
The donation desk at the Office of the Supreme Patriarch's Secretary is open from 6am to 8pm until November 5.
The office, which has so far received Bt450,000, also prepared 20,000 photos of the Supreme Patriarch taken by His Majesty the King to give to donors.
Meanwhile, the Royal Thai Police approved a budget of Bt100,000 per province to assist flood-affected police officers.
The Siam Cement Group yesterday presented to His Majesty the King, via the Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute, two excavated areas in Saraburi's Ban Mor district as a "monkey's cheek" to absorb the deluge before it could flood Bangkok and the surrounding areas.
One 400-rai area had a water-retention capacity of 12.8 million cubic metres, while the other 500 rai could hold 16 million cubic metres.
Siam Commercial Bank yesterday donated Bt10 million into its bank account number 111-3-06313-9. The public are also invited to make donations for flood victims. Call 02-777-7777 for details.
A man shows tiny millipedes taken from tap water in Lop BuriтАЩs Phattana Nikhom district yesterday. Several residents have come down with diarrhoea and other disorders after drinking the muddy and foul-smelling water.
The Public Health Ministry yesterday provided 20 pre-fabricated toilets to 200 flood-affected families in Uthai Thani.
The knock-down toilets - each worth Bt3,000 - were for families forced to leave their flooded homes and camp on the roadside in Muang district. The toilets were also aimed at preventing disease outbreaks by water polluted with human faeces.
Ten tambons of Uthai Thani's Muang district were the hardest-hit with 6,000 families affected by 41 diarrhoea cases and 3,000 suffering from fungal diseases.
Uthai Thani Hospital has provided 2,000 kits containing skin medicine for distribution, and planned to give away whistles, emergency lights and batteries to 300 families.
The Education Ministry, which has seen 598 of its schools damaged in 22 provinces, yesterday morning sent convoys of college students on seven routes to flood-hit Ayutthaya, Sing Buri, Angthong, Suphan Buri, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi and Prachin Buri. Each caravan carried 1,000 sets of household supplies, food and drinking water. Nonthaburi and Prachin Buri received 500 sets each, and five flat-bottom boats and 13 floating toilets were dispatched to Angthong.
Vocational Education Com-mission secretary general Weerasak Wongsombat said students had built 40 floating toilets, at Bt6,000 each, and provided five 200-litre oil drums containing microbes to consume waste.
Another flood-relief caravan organised by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), the Metropolitan Police and the Supreme Command Headquarters left yesterday morning. The 11-truck caravan carried 12,000 sets of household supplies to assist flood victims in Pathum Thani, Angthong, Ayutthaya and Sing Buri.
Today, Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayodhin and Supreme Commander General Boonsrang Niumpradit will present more relief items to the four provinces' governors. Yesterday, Apirak provided 1,000 relief bags from the Princess Pa Foundation to affected Chao Phya riverside residents in Bangkok.
The government has invited the private and public sector to donate money to assist residents in 46 flood-affected provinces via a Government Savings Bank account number 00-0025-20-014972-3 or call 02-281-4130.
Many people yesterday went to make donations at Bangkok's Wat Bovorniwet on the invitation of the Supreme Patriarch.
The donation desk at the Office of the Supreme Patriarch's Secretary is open from 6am to 8pm until November 5.
The office, which has so far received Bt450,000, also prepared 20,000 photos of the Supreme Patriarch taken by His Majesty the King to give to donors.
Meanwhile, the Royal Thai Police approved a budget of Bt100,000 per province to assist flood-affected police officers.
The Siam Cement Group yesterday presented to His Majesty the King, via the Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute, two excavated areas in Saraburi's Ban Mor district as a "monkey's cheek" to absorb the deluge before it could flood Bangkok and the surrounding areas.
One 400-rai area had a water-retention capacity of 12.8 million cubic metres, while the other 500 rai could hold 16 million cubic metres.
Siam Commercial Bank yesterday donated Bt10 million into its bank account number 111-3-06313-9. The public are also invited to make donations for flood victims. Call 02-777-7777 for details.