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Private health bias puts cash ahead of lives
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 05/06/2013
» When the 2011 Central Plains flood crisis ravaged industrial estates in Ayutthaya and destroyed the country's biggest dialysis solution production plant, more than 40,000 patients' lives were endangered.
Public health pioneer ousted for big pharma
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 22/05/2013
» What do you do to the man who helped you win a landslide election through pioneering the 30-baht universal healthcare scheme?
Rural kids falling through the cracks
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 31/10/2012
» When I asked Nukid, my housekeeper, if she thinks it's better for her small sons to grow up in her village rather than in a big city like Bangkok, she vehemently shook her head.
Dropouts from a failed school system
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 12/09/2012
» Meet Bank, a school dropout. When he became bored with herding cattle in his village in Ubon Ratchathani, he agreed to toil in a small garage of my car mechanic to learn the ropes. He was 16 then. After only three years, the teenager is now earning 15,000 baht a month, which is equivalent to the salaries of new university graduates, and dreams of setting up his own business in his hometown.
Drugs fuel descent into hopelessness in far South
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 15/03/2012
» Rofiah used to believe her traditional village in the far South was the best and safest place for her sons to grow up as good Muslims. Not anymore.
Widows pray for peace in a wretched land
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 08/03/2012
» Having lost her husband in the southern violence and forced to struggle for her son's freedom from detention in the Tak Bai crackdown, Yaena Salaemae has only one wish for International Women's Day today.
No one wants to talk about abortion
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 01/03/2012
» When a model told the media she just had an abortion out of pressure from her actor/singer ex-boyfriend _ a decision she now deeply regrets _ what did you think would ensue?