Pattaya dispatches doctors to Old Naklua Market neighborhood
Doctors and city officials visit the Old Naklua
Market neighborhood to administer medicine, provide checkups and give
advice to those unable or unwilling to visit a hospital.
Vittaya Yoondorn
Doctors and city officials made house calls in Naklua as Pattaya
continued its “Doctor at Home” program.
Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome dispatched medical staff to the Old Naklua
Market neighborhood Dec. 14 to administer medicine, provide checkups and
give advice to those unable or unwilling to visit a hospital.
Phrayao Thongboriboon, 77, was one of those. Unable to walk and
suffering from a myriad of illness, Phrayao received a checkup and was
given new medication. Doctors also promised her a new pair of
eyeglasses.
In some cases, outreach doctors will insist on hospitalization. Other
times they will simply check blood pressure and sugar levels, create
medical files for possible later use and review pharmaceutical
prescriptions.
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