Thailand Sends 20 Helicopters To Evacuate Critical Hospital Patients After Flood Kills 33 People

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JAKARTA - Thai authorities will deploy helicopters to evacuate critical patients at government hospitals that have been severely flooded over the past few years in the southern part of the country.

The city of Hat Yai in the southern part was worst affected by Thai flooding. One of the government-owned hospitals in the region treated 600 patients only on the first floor, 50 of whom were in intensive care, flooded.

"Today, all intensive care patients will be transported out of Hat Yai Hospital," Thai ministry official Somrerk Chungsaman told Reuters on Wednesday, November 26.

A spokesman for the Thai government, Siripong Angkasakiat, told reporters that around 20 helicopters and 200 ships were deployed in an effort to carry out rescue operations at Hat Yai.

The shipment of air transport is also based on the death toll of the southern Thai flood which rose to 33 people as of Wednesday, November 26.

Meanwhile, the weather forecast states that the intensity of rainfall will not slope in the near future.