The continuing clashes along the border with Cambodia have forced nine state hospitals in Buri Ram and Surin provinces to suspend all but emergency services.
Seven are tambon health support hospitals in Buri Ram and Surin provinces, and two community hospitals in Phanom Dong Rak and Kap Choeng districts of Surin.
Only emergency units are still running at the two community hospitals, to take care of soldiers wounded in border clashes, Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanavisit on Wednesday.
The suspension of most services at the nine hospitals was announced today after artillery shells landed near Phanom Dong Rak community hospital on Tuesday morning.
Health staff of these hospitals have been relocated to field hospitals about eight kilometres away from the border area.
Twenty-seven patients at Kap Choeng community hospital have been transferred to nearby hospitals in Surin province, he said.
The continuing fighting between Thai and Cambodian troops has so far resulted in 94 people being wounded and six killed, five Thai soldiers and one civilian, according to the Public Health Ministry.
According to bangkokpost
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