SRRT to distribute pollution masks

PATTAYA:--Pattaya public-health volunteers have begun distributing certified face masks for people suffering from recent air pollution.

 

Surveillance and Rapid Response Team members prepared the N96 carbon-filtered masks following a prolonged spike in micro-dust pollution.

 

Pattaya Public Health Department nurse Naanya Jantrakad explained that the N95 masks are necessary as regular masks – and even the human-respiratory system – cannot filter out particulate matter 2.5 microns in size or smaller.

 

The dust, caused by smoke from engine exhausts, large construction projects and factories, has been choking Bangkok and its surrounding provinces for weeks with the effects spreading to Pattaya, although public-health officials called the pollution less severe than in the capital.

 

Nonetheless, the volunteers were taught what respiratory-ailment symptoms to look out for in their neighborhoods and to distribute masks where necessary.

 

Those most at risk are seniors, small children, pregnant women, and people with chronic health conditions.

 

-- PATTAYA MAIL 2019-01-25

Its a step ...thanks I EXPECT to see some clever beach antrapraneurs selling them with sunglasses any day now

I thought I just read somewhere it wasn't so bad?

Where or how do I go about getting one ? are they for everyone or just nationals ? I'm classed as a senior.

12 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

Where or how do I go about getting one ? are they for everyone or just nationals ? I'm classed as a senior.

Just go to Fascino and buy a few!

Stop the convoys of loud-speaker vans touring the town holding up traffic and burning fuel pointlessly.  They cause as much extra pollution as the Bandits-in-Brown stick-ups.