Healthcare to be extended to 700,000 stateless people

BANGKOK: -- The National Health Security Office is to extend the state's healthcare system to about 700,000 stateless people who have been left out of the scheme since it began several years ago.

The NHSO's board Monday decided to include the group in the healthcare scheme, which now covers about 48 million Thais.

"The reality is that some families are covered and some are not even though they live in the same community," said Public Health Minister Dr Mongkol na Songkhla, who chaired Monday's board meeting.

-- The Nation 2006-11-27

What a positive humanitarian gesture.

You can have all the wealth in the world, but, without health life would be tough!