Thailand opens emergency centre after cholera outbreak in Myanmar


YANGON/BANGKOK (The Nation Thailand/ANN): The Thai Public Health Ministry on Sunday set up the forward emergency operations centre (EOC) in Tak province to monitor and minimise the impact from a cholera outbreak across the border in Myanmar.

Opas Karnkawinpong, permanent secretary at the Public Health Ministry, said the forward EOC was set up in Tak as the northern province was at high risk from the spillover of the cholera outbreak from Shwe Kokko town in Myanmar.

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