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Bangkok Post - December 2, 2003
The 55 infected toddlers there have no access to the pills they need because the drugs are so expensive, said Nonthinee Phetpaisit, head of the Bangkok-based state orphanage for abandoned children.
There was also a shortage of suction tubes for removing phlegm.
Although Ramathibodi Hospital doctors were trying their best to help the infants at the orphanage, a lot more still needed to be done.
She said the centre was also facing a shortage of people to help take care of the children, who are all abandoned or orphaned.
Each staff member had to look after about 10 children, she said.
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