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Border hospitals need more help
Editorial, Published on 19/04/2026
» A recent appeal for financial help from Umphang Hospital in Tak province highlights the ordeals faced by hospitals along the Thai-Myanmar border.
Another health app
News, Editorial, Published on 23/12/2025
» The Public Health Ministry is set to relaunch its Mohpromt application next month, pivoting from its role as a central platform for Covid-19 vaccinations to a comprehensive digital health "super app".
Refugees face deepening crisis
Editorial, Published on 16/02/2025
» US President Donald Trump's abrupt suspension of USAID funding has left more than 80,000 refugees in Thailand adrift without essential medical care. Clinics have shut their doors. Medicines are running out. Lives are now hanging in the balance.
Thaksin's forlorn fashion hope
Editorial, Published on 26/01/2025
» Remember Nadja Auermann? The German supermodel was invited by the then Thaksin Shinawatra government in 2004 to join hundreds of Thai models on the runway to kick off the Bangkok Fashion City campaign -- Thaksin's ambitious bid to put Thailand on the world fashion map.
Invest in our doctors
Oped, Editorial, Published on 09/06/2023
» The shortage of medical personnel is not a new issue; indeed the problem has been part of the public health system for decades. Yet, the matter was brought up again this week following a viral Facebook post by actress Noppasorn "Puimek" Veerayuthawilai, who graduated from the faculty of medicine at Rangsit University.
Take gloves off on fraud
News, Editorial, Published on 27/10/2021
» Reports of counterfeit or substandard medical gloves being sold on the market are not new -- in fact, there were more than a few cases reported last year alone. However, the most recent incident that was picked up by international media -- in which tens of millions of fake, low-quality medical gloves were flagged in the United States -- will not only embarrass the country, but severely harm Thailand's budding glove exports.
Home care faltering
Oped, Editorial, Published on 05/08/2021
» One month after the Prayut Chan-o-cha government launched its home and community quarantine programme for people infected with Covid-19, the system is found to have so many flaws that infections are soaring, with a surge in fatalities, some of whom were left dying at home without proper care.
Protect the protectors
Oped, Editorial, Published on 02/04/2020
» Moral support, financial donations and gifts whether in the form of face masks, food or other necessities have been pouring in for doctors, nurses and other health personnel combating the coronavirus outbreak. But the goodwill gestures are not enough.
Unmasking mask failures
News, Editorial, Published on 11/03/2020
» It's time the Commerce Ministry's Internal Trade Department made surgical masks available to health personnel and the public at reasonable prices or openly took responsibility for the wretched job it has done.