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education on the importance of correct
sanitation and distributing hand washing
gel. Thereby establishing a happy
community.
It was a blueprint of how to join
forces to help affected people.
Question: In managing the strategy to
solve this problem, what is the most
difficult thing? What impresses you most
or would you like to mention certain
operators, agencies or organizations?
Answer: The most difficult thing is the
fight against deception, caused by (from left) Harin, Suporn, Governor, Sun,
misinformation. This only confuses people Kriengkamon
and causes panic in the community.
People have free and fast communication
through social media that transmits and pay attention and work together to stop
shares a lot of information, including real this disease.
news as well as ‘fake news’. If people Against COVID-19, we have already
lack awareness or lack the ability to proven worldwide that the medical staff,
analyze good information, this can lead to the Phuket team, the Thailand team all of
panic. Therefore, it is important to create us, we the people, have succeeded.
understanding so that people are not What impressed me was the
panicked but rather, they are aware of the strength of every sector but especially,
correct prevention of the disease and that of the medical and public health
other vital information. This is therefore teams they were as strong any team I
the hard work that every region in Phuket have known and they were a prototype
needs to accelerate in order to enable for Thailand, in controlling the spread of
people to have all-round awareness by the COVID-19 virus. I must include the
receiving the right information. cooperation of the people of Phuket. With
Under pressure Phuket therefore Phuket aiming to give importance to
attaches importance that public policy, public health as true as the proverb
must weigh more than economic policy. It ‘arokaya paramalapa’, without disease is a
must take into account the role of the noble fortune. Health must lead the
public health policy and we must help economy because I believe; when people
people cooperate with local officials and have good physical health, they will have
health officials seriously. This is not the the power to revive the economy of
responsibility of staff and medical Phuket, better than ever.
personnel only, everyone one of us must