A motor accident!
15 students and 2 teachers involved in a motor accident while traveling to Sai Yok Noi
The students were traveling in the van owned by Sai Yok hospital when it reportedly collided with a truck. Bodies of students were strewn across the main road, holding up traffic for more than an hour as police, rescue crews and ambulance staff rushed patients to the nearby hospital (some 11 kilometers away). Momo had taken another patient to the hospital, and was waiting in the corridor when the first patients arrived. Baby Zac cried out when he saw Teacher Somsri being wheeled in with her left arm in a cast. I know God is good all the time, but!!!
It was only a mock up, training event to stretch the staff of the local emergency teams. They were surprised when they had to contend with moaning American teachers as well as kids! At the hospital, onlookers thought it was real, and could not understand why this morbid white person was running around with the camera, photographing injured children. We were paid for the role playing by the children, 3000 baht. God is very good to us.
It was my third trip to Sai Yok in the day; the first transporting the sick; the second to transport Lukai to school early as he had been chosen to represent the Sai Yok district. He came home triumphant, winning second place in the regional finals for singing English songs. I think we all know the words to “Take me to your heart” after all the practices.
The day ended on a sad note. Just as school was commencing in the evening, a mother came with a screaming baby. Somehow the mother had managed to drop boiling water over 80% of his body. We rushed him to Sai Yok, where he was on the IV within minutes. We had applied some special burn aid dressings en route, which helped the areas where they were. However we did not have enough dressing to cover his total affected area. As we now approach the “burn incident” times, as the weather cools, we would like to get some more of these dressings.
The students were traveling in the van owned by Sai Yok hospital when it reportedly collided with a truck. Bodies of students were strewn across the main road, holding up traffic for more than an hour as police, rescue crews and ambulance staff rushed patients to the nearby hospital (some 11 kilometers away). Momo had taken another patient to the hospital, and was waiting in the corridor when the first patients arrived. Baby Zac cried out when he saw Teacher Somsri being wheeled in with her left arm in a cast. I know God is good all the time, but!!!
It was only a mock up, training event to stretch the staff of the local emergency teams. They were surprised when they had to contend with moaning American teachers as well as kids! At the hospital, onlookers thought it was real, and could not understand why this morbid white person was running around with the camera, photographing injured children. We were paid for the role playing by the children, 3000 baht. God is very good to us.
It was my third trip to Sai Yok in the day; the first transporting the sick; the second to transport Lukai to school early as he had been chosen to represent the Sai Yok district. He came home triumphant, winning second place in the regional finals for singing English songs. I think we all know the words to “Take me to your heart” after all the practices.
The day ended on a sad note. Just as school was commencing in the evening, a mother came with a screaming baby. Somehow the mother had managed to drop boiling water over 80% of his body. We rushed him to Sai Yok, where he was on the IV within minutes. We had applied some special burn aid dressings en route, which helped the areas where they were. However we did not have enough dressing to cover his total affected area. As we now approach the “burn incident” times, as the weather cools, we would like to get some more of these dressings.
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