Area Lions Clubs donate
wheelchairs to disabled residents from nine local neighborhoods.
Warunya Thongrod
Two area Lions Club chapters donated 13 wheelchairs to
disabled residents from nine local neighborhoods.
Somyot Kotkhen, president of the Lions Club of Pratamnak, and
Sattakhun Duangdara, president of the Lions Club of Naklua, joined doctors and
staff of the Banglamung Hospital Sept. 4 at the Old Naklua Market for the
presentation ceremony.
Wheelchairs went to residents of the Old Naklua Market, Ton
Krabok Surao, Haa Thunwa, Nongyai, Nongtabaek, Chaiyapruek, Wat
Bunyakanchanaram, Sai Thappraya communities and Pattaya’s “Doctors at Home”
project.
“Donating wheelchairs to disabled patients is another
activity of the Lions Club that is held every month as the Lions want to help
society and have conducted many activities, whether is building Pattaya’s
library and installing water filters for schools in the city and donating
scholarships to students,” Somyot said.
Lions representatives said the donation was necessary as many
people do not have easy access to hospitals. Banglamung Hospital, they said, has
dispatched mobile units to various communities in Pattaya to collect information
regarding patients who are too poor to afford their own chairs. The hospital
then requested help from the Lions Club.
