Chiang Mai needs Bangkok’s spare air purifiers

[webfact]

Chiang Mai needs Bangkok’s spare air purifiers

By Chularat Saengpassa 
The Nation

 

 Phpto credit : FB Pharadon Phonamnuai

 

With the North still shrouded in haze crisis, the price of air purifiers has risen due to high demand, and an academic has appealed to Bangkok people to donate their spare units.
 

Chiang Mai University Faculty of Medicine Professor Chaicharn Pothirat said on Friday the school needs purifiers for the 300 “clean rooms” it’s establishing as refuges for residents overcome by the smog.

 

He said retailers had “overly” hiked the price of purifiers, with a Bt12,000 unit now typically costing more than Bt20,000. 

 

“We need help from Bangkokians who may have multiple air purifiers to give some to us so we can build clean rooms at tambon-level health-promotion hospitals and nurseries,” Dr Chaicharn said.

 

“The smog had been bad for nearly three months here and the establishment of enough ‘safety zones’ may still take some time.”

 

Chaicharn warned that northerners returning home for Songkran from locales elsewhere should brace for the ill effects of the haze. 

 

Donations of purifiers, facemasks and other items of use can be made at the Chiang Mai International Exhibition and Convention Centre and Suan Dok Hospital’s Lung Health Centre.

 

Chaicharn said declaring Chiang Mai a disaster zone – something the governor claims he is legally unable to do – would allow the authorities to control the price and availability of essential goods. 

 

He was leading a team in distributing 1,500 N95-grade facemasks to children and people with heart and lung ailments in Chiang Dao district.

A clean room was set up at Chiang Dao Hospital for the nurses. 

 

The Convention Centre is already a designated Safety Zone housing a significant number of “smog refugees”. 

 

Asthma sufferer Khomta Jaisue, 63, said she was coughing up blood when she decided to flee her home at the foot of Doi Suthep, an area blanketed in haze for days.

 

The Chiang Mai public health office continues to call for donations of N95 facemasks, saying there are 500,000 people in need – children under 5, adults over 60, pregnant women, 94,000 asthma sufferers and 36,000 people with heart disease.

 

The Pollution Control Department reported at 9am on Friday that levels of PM2.5 pollution – airborne particulates 2.5 microns or less in diameter – in nine northern provinces ranged from 47-120 micrograms per cubic metre of air. The Thai safe limit is 50mcg. 

 

Worst off were tambon Chang Pheuk in Muang Chiang Mai with 120mcg, followed by Jong Kham in Muang Mae Hong Son (119), Sri Phum in Muang Chiang Mai (111), Chang Kerng in Chiang Mai’s Mae Chaem district (105), Wiang Phang Kham in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district (104), Ban Klang in Muang Lamphun (104), Ban Tom in Muang Phayao (98), Huai Khon in Nan’s Chalerm Phrakiat district (92) and Suthep in Muang Chiang Mai (83).

 

Officials and volunteers continue fighting multiple forest fires in Chiang Mai, where a satellite image captured at 2am on Friday showed 75 fire hotspots.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30367199

 

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[khwaibah]

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

The smog

 

Smog my arse. Thats smoke from fires caused by corruption NOT smog. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smog

Edited April 5, 2019 by khwaibah

[Dellboy218]

The first step is to stop calling it 'HAZE'.    

[Greer]

In reality the local authorities, and perhaps even the army, need to step in and get organised to put out the existing fires, AND make sure that heavy fines are in place for those who defy bans on lighting  the fires in the first place.

The way to fix this is at the source - yes it's a bit late to implement prevention inasmuch as the fires are there now, but additional burnoffs could be prevented.

 

Clearing land after harvest can and must be done by alternative methods - even if the government was to assist in the cost, it would still be a lot less than the potential lost revenue and other costs associated with the current situation, and that is not even taking into account the human toll on health.

[brewsterbudgen]

The air is still bad in Bangkok, so sorry, I'm keeping my difficult to find air purifiers.

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[justin case]

hahaha, thai people and donate in the same sentence

 

greed is religion and karma points are bought with money to cover up shitty things they do

[Thechook]

Hardly a tourist to be seen in chiangmai but apparently they are at all time record high numbers.  The price of face masks are 290 baht each so people are getting rich on this.  The government should be giving them out free

[vivid]

I thought the Xiaomi 2S is still going for around 4.3k and the Pro is doing 6k+?   What price hike? 

 

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Asthma sufferer Khomta Jaisue, 63, said she was coughing up blood when she decided to flee her home at the foot of Doi Suthep, an area blanketed in haze for days.

 

Oooo.....that's real bad. 

[THAIJAMES]

1 hour ago, vivid said:

I thought the Xiaomi 2S is still going for around 4.3k and the Pro is doing 6k+?   What price hike? 

 

 

Oooo.....that's real bad. 

A friend of mine bought one from the official store locally in Chiang Mai a couple days ago at the standard price I'm sure there's plenty available if you look.

[vivid]

56 minutes ago, THAIJAMES said:

A friend of mine bought one from the official store locally in Chiang Mai a couple days ago at the standard price I'm sure there's plenty available if you look.

Yeah, actually one guy PMed me on Tuesday and placed the order on Lazada, he messaged me again just 6hrs ago and mentioned that it is out for delivery today.

 

He paid 6k+ for the Xiaomi Pro. The 500 m3/hr one.

[Ulic]

None of this needed. Simply arrest and jail those who set fires in fields and forests. Until then nothing will change, so just wait for the rain and enjoy the smog in the north of Thailand until then. 

[worgeordie]

There's a bright golden haze on the meadow 
There's a bright golden haze on the meadow 
The corn is as high as an elephant's eye 
And it looks like it's climbing clear up to the sky

 

Does not sound like the same HAZE in Chiang Mai does it.

regards worgeordie

[spidermike007]

NO. What should have happened if the army's claims that they are there for the welfare of the nation was true, was that they would have spent the past 60 months working on solutions, instead of bowing down to the lobbyists, special interests, the elites and those with massive bankrolls. Instead, we have this. People are dying. The respiratory wings of the hospitals are full of people with acute condition, who can barely breathe. The potential solutions are endless. If they only cared about the people. 

 

Do we really need another five years of this hapless incompetence and indifference?

[richard_smith237]

20 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

NO. What should have happened if the army's claims that they are there for the welfare of the nation was true, was that they would have spent the past 60 months working on solutions, instead of bowing down to the lobbyists, special interests, the elites and those with massive bankrolls. Instead, we have this. People are dying. The respiratory wings of the hospitals are full of people with acute condition, who can barely breathe. The potential solutions are endless. If they only cared about the people. 

 

Do we really need another five years of this hapless incompetence and indifference?

 

So many of Thailands woes are handled not with a degree incompetence but with complete disregard when those in positions of decision making power continue to exercise such an overwhelming degree of apathy towards the populace over which they preside.

 

The repeated media announcements made by such charlatans are an insult to a nation. 

 

Many of Thailands outstanding issues can be fixed, however, the solution to getting those in positions of power to care enough to effect change still remains out of reach and thus so do the first steps towards resolving these issues in an effective manner.

 

 

 

[Prairieboy]

I have a leaf blower that I am willing to rent out for 500/day.

[hotchilli]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

Chiang Mai needs Bangkok’s spare air purifiers

Chiang Mai needs a new governor who knows what he's doing !!!!

[ZeVonderBearz]

Stop Thai protectionism and open up the markets to create a competitive market place for the consumer. This way all the retailers, all two or three of them, will not be able up their prices on purifiers and masks. Basically making money and capitalising from a disaster zone.

[sammieuk1]

Chiang Mai needs to stop burning end of story as the general must by now be doing a rain dance around the war room as his deadline approaches and his face will surely fall off if no rain comes to save it????  

[Greenside]

Xiaomi 2S at Big C Hang Dong today.  It's the Chinese version (not that it matters) and 6k is standard for the in-store price at the moment.  Don't see any price gouging as claimed earlier in this thread.  My son's school bought hundreds from somewhere.

 

 

[vivid]

Looks like 11 pcs of Xiaomi 2S still available.  Decent price too.  If you want cheaper you can save like 1.7k but gotta wait 3-4 days for that.