World National Health Security Office officials and award winners toured Pattaya’s Redemptorist Vocational School for Persons with Disabilities to study it as a model to be used around the world.
Dr. Kaewjai Tippayaratsoontorn, director of the NHSO’s eastern office, led a group of 38 staffers and recipients of the NHSO’s Prince Mahidol Songkhla award to inspect the operations and management of the Father Ray Foundation school following a Bangkok awards ceremony Jan. 31.
Rev. Peter Pattarapong Srivorakul, president of the foundation, welcomed the inspectors who had come to survey management methods, general operations, teaching and study materials and get a sense for the general well-being of students.
The visit came after members of the World NHSO from 24 countries were nominated to receive the Prince Mahidol Songkhla award in celebration the 115th birthday of HRH Prince Mahidol Songkhla.
HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn was the presenter at the ceremony. The 2016 awards were given to chemist Sir Gregory Paul Winter, dean of Trinity College University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom; and Professor Vladimir Hachinski from Canada, whose specialty is in strokes and vascular dementia.
After receiving the awards, members of the NHSO took the opportunity to go on a tour and visit the Redemptorist School as a case study.
The visitors were shown around and got involved in practical activities with the students and management present.
