May 14, 2008
BANGKOK - Thailand plans to send its medical team to Myanmar who has been criticised for refusing foreign assistance in the aftermath of a cyclone.
The medical team consists of 30 Thai doctors and it will leave Bangkok for Rangoon on Friday.
The team will stay for two weeks in Myanmar, whose southwestern Irrawaddy Delta region was devastated in the Cyclone Nargis.
"We have been informed from the Myanmar foreign ministry that they will welcome 30 Thai doctors to help cyclone survivors," it said in a statement.
The team -- made up of medics from the Thai Red Cross and a Bangkok hospital -- will treat injured victims, work on disease prevention and offer psychological services.
