The new phase of COVID-19 pandemic caused a decrease in blood donations since late March. More than 340 hospitals nationwide need 6,500-7,000 units of blood daily, but only 2,000 units are available, so blood is insufficient for medical treatments. Medical treatment postponement due to blood shortage may put patients’ lives at risk or even cause…
On 7 April 2021, Prof. Garnpimol Ritthidej, Deputy Director of the (QSMI), the Thai Red Cross Society (TRCS), along with other TRCS executives and staff, visited and observed the operations of Map Ta Phut Olefins Company Limited’s chemical manufacturing plant, in Rayong Province. This visit was part of the TRCS strategic project on the QSMI…
Mr. Sudirman Said, Secretary General of the Indonesia Red Cross (PMI), and Ms. Madalena Fernandes Melo Hanjan Costa Soares, President of the Timor-Leste Red Cross, sent letters to express their appreciation for the Thai Red Cross Society’s humanitarian support provided for flood response operations. Following the devastating flooding and landslides after Cyclone Seroja, the Thai…
Following the retirement of the Secretary General of the Thai Red Cross Society; Mr. Phan Wannamethee, on 30 April 2021, Her Majesty Queen Sirikit the Queen Mother, President of the Thai Red Cross Society, has graciously appointed Mr. Tej Bunnag the new Secretary General since 1 May 2021. On this occasion, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha…
Due to the new phase of COVID-19 pandemic, the Thai Red Cross Society (TRCS) sends urgent assistance to vulnerable people. Mr. Grisada Boonrach, Director of the Thai Red Cross Chapters Administration Office, said that the Thai Red Cross Chapters Administration Office along with the Relief and Community Health Bureau, TRCS, have provided relief kits…
Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, Executive Vice-President of the Thai Red Cross Society (TRCS), out of concerns for people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, has graciously granted permission to the Relief and Community Health Bureau of the Thai Red Cross Society to set up the mobile kitchen during 26 April – 3 May…
Health-care workers and patients have suffered through thousands of attacks on health-care systems five years on from the U.N resolution calling for an end to impunity for such attacks (3 May 2016). This is seen in the data recorded by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in countries affected by conflict and other…
On 7 May 2021, Ms.Christine Schraner Burgener, United Nations Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar, met Mr. Tej Bunnag, Secretary General of the Thai Red Cross Society, accompanied by Dr. Apichart Shinwanno, Assistant Secretary General for External Relations, at Terd Prakiat Building, the Thai Red Cross Society. The purpose of meeting was to seek…
The Thai Red Cross Society has sent a condolences letter and donated 10,000 US dollars (314,700 Baht) to Timor-Leste Red Cross Society on 22 April 2021 due to the devastating flooding and landslides Cyclone Seroja in Dili, capital city of Timor-Leste. The severe storm was starting in early April 2021. It caused 42 lives lost…
On 26 April 2021, the Thai Red Cross Society donated 1,000,000 Baht to the Myanmar Red Cross Society via the Royal Thai Embassy, Yangon, to support the latter’s humanitarian operations during the situations which have been taking place in Myanmar since February 2021. The donation was handed over to Prof. Dr. Htin Zaw Soe, Secretary…