Cancer, Heart Diseases Biggest Killers in Thailand: Health Minister
Posted on: Monday, 30 May 2005, 09:00 CDT
Cancer, heart diseases biggest killers in Thailand: health minister
BANGKOK, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Cancer and heart diseases are the biggest killers of Thais, Thailand's health minister has said.
Nearly 62,000 Thais died of these two diseases in 2002 -- at an average of seven deaths an hour, Minister Suchai Charoenratanakul was quoted Sunday by the Thai News Agency as saying. He added that an average of nearly 800 patients of these diseases were admitted daily to hospital for treatment in 2003.
Thailand needs to develop its medical technology to treat these killer diseases, he said.
Nearly 80 percent of hospitals and clinics treating the two diseases are now located in Bangkok.
With the acute shortage of treatment facilities available in the provinces, the health ministry plans to set up 40 cancer treatment centers and another 28 clinics to treat emergency cases across the country before 2008, costing more than 2 billion baht ( 51.28 million US dollars), Suchai said.
Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS
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