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Amazing Thailand

A 1,200 Km road ambulance trip to save a 10 month old Laotian Child

A report ผอ.รพ.หนองคาย เผยสาเหตุส่งตัวเด็กลาว 10 เดือน ผ่าตัดด่วน [ https://www.naewna.com/local/782605 ] tells of a story of a humanitarian and international endeavor to rush a 10 month old Laotian child born with a heart defect from the Nongkai Hospital (หนองคาย in Thailand) to King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital ( โรงพยาบาลจุฬาลงกรณ์ สภากาชาดไทย in Bangkok) for an urgent heart operation. The child was moved by an ambulance with police escort over 615 kilometers (on the Friendship Highway connecting Laos and Thailand). The operation was successful and the child is expected to recover back in Nongkai Hospital (also by road ambulance) before returning home in Laos.

The reason for not using air transport was given that the child could be stressed by unfamiliar vehicles of transport.

There are 35 more cases (of Laotian patients requiring special treatments only available in Bangkok hospitals) on the list awaiting operations. So, this is the beginning of a long story of friendship that Laos and Thais can build on and that humanitarian cooperation is better in action than in words.