Public Health Ministry initiates road safety campaign

BANGKOK, 23 February 2015 (NNT) - The Ministry of Public Health will take a leading role in promoting road safety, as Thailand ranks third in terms of most road fatalities.

Public Health Minister Ratchata Ratchatanawin said that it is important to assure traffic regulations are followed all year round, and not just during statistically hazardous periods.

The World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that road accidents in the country kill roughly 26-thousand people per year. That number has put the Kingdom in third place for the world’s highest road deaths.

Public Health officials are expected to act as positive role models for other organizations by not going over the speed limit or drunk driving, and always wearing safety gear.

In addition, the Department of Disease Control has been instructed to draft a road safety protocol, which will be adopted by all public organizations across the country.


-- NNT 2015-02-23

Fed up listening to their intentions.

Just keep your mouth shut and DO something about road safety.

Nobody believes you any more.

This scenario is for public consumption with no substance.

Another impossible task

"Department of Disease Control has been instructed to draft a road safety protocol"

......that's an interesting twist........obviously it has'nt worked with the Dept of Roads and Transport.......but then again, local driving habits are not unlike a disease.

thought Songkran is in April???

Thailand will become a nanny state with all these new rules!!

Said the same tripe just a few months ago after a nasty accident.

And Thailand would be number one, if they would actually report all deaths by motor vehicle, which they do not.

What !, they are going to introduce self drive cars

regards Worgeordie

Fed up listening to their intentions.

Just keep your mouth shut and DO something about road safety.

Nobody believes you any more.

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For a moment there, I could swear you came to your senses.

I thought you were talking about the junta and the treasonous Un-Elected PM.

How many times have we heard this before?

I still see loads of Thai (yes Thai!!) driving/pushing carts against traffic in Bangkok at the most busy roads. At the smaller roads they even don't use any lights on their cars/motorbikes.

Also i still don't see the police doing anything to stop that.

So keep on dreaming Thailand, soon you will be number 1 of the whole world.

Here's the Top Ten in road fatalities.

1. Namibia 45

2. Thailand 44

3. Iran 38

4. Sudan 36

5. Swaziland 36

6. Venezuela 35

7. Congo 34

8. Malawi 32

9. Dominican Republic 32

10. Iraq 32

Now, here's the key. Thailand would, more than likely, be #1 IF they included the deaths that occurred AFTER the accident. Thailand only counts those dead at the scene of the accident, and leave out the stats for those who later died at the hospital as a result of the accident.

Until the ghost of so called 'Thainess' is eradicated from this country; nothing will ever change - zero, ne rien, soon, nada , inte, nichts, or Sweet FA will ever change.

There is no 'Thainess' left, as the word itself is a paradoxical lie made up as excuses for: ignorance, pathetic ways of living, excuses for not knowing, ancient ethics, the unwanting to change anything through fear of loss, ambivalence regarding other countries' correct formats concerning human rights, and the list could go on to take up 4 pages of this TV forum.

I like the food, the weather, the ability to have nobody in yer face, but when it comes to decision-making this place is a complete <deleted> up!

As PatOngo clearly observed, the Dept of Disease Control drafting road safety protocols? ............ Well that's the equivalent of your local mig welder performing a Caesarian section.

There is no answer to &lt;deleted&gt; is wrong with this place. The powers that be don't even try to understand the questions demanded of them, but simply flit like a fly from turd to turd looking for answers, and implementing any try possible to see the consequences - purely because the non-existant Thainess will accept nothing but ancient and antiquated methods of itself.

As for; "Public Health officials are expected to act as positive role models for other organizations by not going over the speed limit or drunk driving, and always wearing safety gear." Safety gear? Does that mean wearing a seat belt, or a <deleted>ing helmet in a car?

Lunacy has real meaning, and is alive and well in Thailand. I apologise to the ghosts all believed in, by the way, as I'm not wearing an amulet; so please don't come and haunt me.

And the Public Health Ministry's goal is to what... become #1 in road fatalaties?

Actually they could easily achieve that goal if they were to report all traffic deaths, not simply those who die at the scene.

i 'll write only... LOL

So what's wrong with the police actually doing their jobs?

ENFORCE ROAD LAWS

Speeders

Drunks

Driving against traffic

Driving in your lane and not half in one and half in another...idiots.

...and a 100 other stupid things people in this country do.

Thailand will become a nanny state with all these new rules!!

Can't agree with this odd comment! The rules are there. It just needs a professional police force to uphold the law and not treat it as a money-making exercise.

If a Jumbo jet crashed each week killing 500 people, as the road fatalities here do, there'd be an international outcry.

But the deaths go unreported, week after week; m/cyclists won't wear helmets, people drink like fish after dark and aren't breath tested.

Because there are efforts to bring in some law and order, and follow western countries and have highway patrols, speed cameras, red light cameras and an efficient police force, is far from being a nanny state.

Many do drive like they walk. Instead of squaring a corner and making a 90 degree turn it becomes a 45 degree blocking incoming traffic to the road they are on (shortest distance between two points etc etc). I personally believe the government should make one way roads in many of their cities where the roads were made before cars became almost a norm. Also instead of leeching with fines off the population due to inadequate driver education..... I would run 2 or 3 minute government videos on what to do and how to do it when driving during national news broadcast.. But all that may be to hard or to simple ?

Fed up listening to their intentions.

Just keep your mouth shut and DO something about road safety.

Nobody believes you any more.

This scenario is for public consumption with no substance.

Just give it time, Costas. Your beloved general is sorting everything out, isn't he?

Zzzzzzzzzzz

Fed up listening to their intentions.

Just keep your mouth shut and DO something about road safety.

Nobody believes you any more.

This scenario is for public consumption with no substance.

Just give it time, Costas. Your beloved general is sorting everything out, isn't he?

Yes , our beloved General will

Fed up listening to their intentions.

Just keep your mouth shut and DO something about road safety.

Nobody believes you any more.

This scenario is for public consumption with no substance.

"This scenario is for public consumption with no substance."

Doesn't that statement sum up just about everything that comes out of a government department just about anywhere in the world but particularly here in Thailand?

"Public Health officials are expected to act as positive role models for other organizations by not going over the speed limit or drunk driving, and always wearing safety gear." Ok....ahm...wot???

Fed up listening to their intentions.

Just keep your mouth shut and DO something about road safety.

Nobody believes you any more.

This scenario is for public consumption with no substance.

"This scenario is for public consumption with no substance."

Doesn't that statement sum up just about everything that comes out of a government department just about anywhere in the world but particularly here in Thailand?

Not to mention certain parts of this Thai-centric forum!

Thailand will become a nanny state with all these new rules!!

There is one born, every minute!

Don't feed him!

Oh what the hell!

Yeah, do away with rules and safety regulations!

26.000 dead every year- that's the smell of freedom...and one day, it is one of your friends or your child!

Let's see, how great your freedom is than, troll!

Where are all the apologists who say we should assimilate, drive like Thais?

Hello? Hello? Anyone there?

I think this is the old rating of Number #3? end of year report was Thailand is number #2 and Iran is #1, Why this time of the year the reason as WHO has reported it is that time of the year again when WHO gives millions of dollars to Thailand to address the problem the problem they keep moving up in the rankings without Thailand ever being accountable to how they actually are going to deal with the problem instead of spending money on posters and skimming the rest for themselves.

You got to understand the problem first to be able to fix it and even then do they even have the balls to do it.

Public Health officials are expected to act as positive role models for other organizations by not going over the speed limit or drunk driving, and always wearing safety gear.

Wow expecting officials to set an example.... now theres an idea for the 21st century, shame its not made clear there would be a penalty for officials if caught setting a bad example, like instant dismissal ... then they might listen, as it is in a week it'll all be ignored as normal.

the Department of Disease Control has been instructed to draft a road safety protocol, which will be adopted by all public organizations across the country. ​

What are they going to do, suggest inoculations to reduce accidents ?

the 26,000 is just at the scene deaths, itsnothing to the number who die after the accident or suffer serious lasting injury from wrong or no treatment which is often badly needed at the scene of the accident ... I reckon you can almost double those death figures if you include people dying asa result of a traffic accident and not just at the scene

Heres an idea, why not train paramedics and have trained ambulance staff to attend accidents, so many end up dead because emergency response teams often have little or no training and throw injured victims about like they were bags of rice...

Edited February 23, 201511 yr by englishoak

Fed up listening to their intentions.

Just keep your mouth shut and DO something about road safety.

Nobody believes you any more.

This scenario is for public consumption with no substance.

yep just more rubbish propaganda from the Junta.

"Public Health officials are expected to act as positive role models for other organizations by not going over the speed limit or drunk driving, and always wearing safety gear."

OK, so if we just begin to entertain the expectation that the Public Health officials control themselves when behind the wheel it will all work itself out and many many lives will begin to be saved. OK. And we have the Disease Control people on it with their perspective of poor driving being the symptom of a bacterial or virus infection? Gotchya.

With ideas and plans like that I'm sure the ministers can count on bales of cash from the WHO for proposals on studies for improving road safety in Thailand. They really are pulling out all the stops down there at the ministry. Thailand the hub of expectations.

Edited February 23, 201511 yr by Shaunduhpostman

Sounds like the public health department has nothing to do now that they have discovered the cure for all viruses known to man. What is the transport department doing? I think if all these department stuck to and concentrated on thier own portfolio something might get done in the country. They are all to busy putting thier noses into other depts and and neglect thier jobs.