BANGKOK, Aug 13 ― Decked out in personal protective equipment, former pilot Chayaphon Satondee dashes to the Bangkok home of an elderly coronavirus patient in urgent need of hospital care. Chayaphon gives the 86-year-old woman oxygen before laying her on a stretcher and taking her to hospital in...
BANGKOK, Aug 13 ― Decked out in personal protective equipment, former pilot Chayaphon Satondee dashes to the Bangkok home of an elderly coronavirus patient in urgent need of hospital care.
The group, which relies on donations, has more than 100 volunteers who handle calls to a hotline, respond to emergencies and conduct more than 10,000 rapid tests a day. Most of them are young people who have no formal medical training but are taught basic first aid response. Thailand's hospitals are being inundated with the country's biggest wave of infections so far, which since April has accounted for the bulk of its more than 800,000 cases and close to 7,000 deaths.
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