Village health volunteer Surin Makradee, 77, checks the temperature of a man under quarantine during visits to houses to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in Ang Thong province, Thailand, May 27, 2020. — Reuters pic
She is a member of the Village Health Volunteers, a long-overlooked network of more than 1 million community workers dating back to a Cold War-era hearts-and-minds programme. “Thailand’s village health volunteers are unsung heroes working to support the prevention, detection and reporting of Covid-19,” said Daniel Kertesz, WHO representative for Thailand, referring to the disease caused by the coronavirus.
“I have to educate those in quarantine to eat and live separately from their family members,” she said.Created in 1977, the Village Health Volunteers were set up as part of government efforts to help rural communities at a time when communists insurgents roamed through many parts of the country. He said volunteers helped create greater participation in the health systems in subsequent decades and won praise during previous epidemics like the H5N1 bird flu in the mid-2000s.
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