RTAF provide shelters, police offer routes to the north
The Royal Thai Air Force has opened two shelters within its Don Mueang compound to accommodate 500 flood evacuees.
The shelters are located inside the RTAF Chantharubeksa stadium and nearby RTAF Noncommissioned Officers Club, said spokesman Air Vice Marshall Monthol Satchukorn.
A C130 cargo plane yesterday airlifted 23 seriously ill patients to and from various hospitals in and outside Bangkok. Another 58 patients and 40 relatives from Thammasat University hospital north of Bangkok were moved to Maharaj hospital in Nakhon Ratchasima.
After the flooding of many key roads, the Highways Police Department has advised several alternate routes heading to the North and Northeast.
People heading north may use the Outer Ring Road, then RangsitNakhon Nayok road, then enter Saraburi at Hing Kong intersection, then to Lop Buri and Route 11. Northeastbound motorists should use Route 305, then Kaeng Khoi intersection, and Mitraphab road to Nakhon Ratchasima.
An Abac Poll survey found that respondents were tired of political games between Pheu Thai and Democrat Parties’ during their handling of the current flood situation.
Of 1,305 people surveyed on October 1522, 81 per cent said they wanted to see cooperation between the coalition and opposition parties, and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. A large portion said they were hearing about political conflict during the relief operations caused suffering.
The respondents also called for solutions to handle flood and water management in the long run: onestop centres in all provinces to enable easy implementation of postflood relief efforts; a fund to support such efforts; an information centre where residents living in frequentlyflooded areas can access details useful in an emergency.
They also called for an independent body to monitor and evaluate the government’s flood relief works; and a governmentregulated mechanism to make sure flood victims received assistance equally or proportionally to damage caused.
The Nation
