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Bangkok Post - January 14, 2001
Supamart Kasem in Tak
As part of a joint medical agreement signed in July by Thailand and Burma, the team yesterday visited Mae La refugee camp in Tha Song Yang district and the Cynthia Clinic in Mae Sot, where sick Burmese people from Myawaddy are treated. The team was led by Dr Anussorn Suthirat.
The agreement was signed in Chiang Mai by Public Health Minister Korn Dabbaransi and his Burmese counterpart, Maj-Gen Khet Sein.
The programme, to focus on the prevention of the spread of malaria, HIV/Aids and tuberculosis, will be funded with US$252,000 from the United Nations and the two nations.
Dr Kanoknart Pisuthakul, director of Mae Sot hospital, said the two countries would set up a joint team of doctors, nurses, public health officials and NGO workers at Mae Sot-Myawaddy in Tak, Mae Sai-Tachilek in Chiang Rai, Kanchanaburi-Three-Pagoda Pass, and Ranong-Kawthaung.
Dr Kanoknart said she led a team of eight officials to Myawaddy on Dec 5 to meet their Burmese counterparts. They agreed to exchange information on epidemics, and the treatment and transfers of patients. Details would be hammered out at the next meeting in Mae Sot late next month.
Records from the Tak public health office found malaria has spread widely along the border. The number of malaria patients reached 91,703 since 1996, most of them Burmese.
A number of Burmese workers contracted HIV/Aids because of lack of understanding on the prevention of sexually-transmitted diseases.
The number of people seeking treatment for tuberculosis increased during the past few years.
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