PHOTOS: Volunteers travel to the forgotten people around Bangkok's outlying neighborhoods, taking care of the desperate who can't find a place in Thailand's overburdened health care system or who are living in the streets.
Volunteers from the "Saimai Will Survive" group in protective gear prepare oxygen for a struggling woman infected with COVID-19 on July 23, 2021, in Bangkok, Thailand. As Thailand's medical system struggles beneath a surge of coronavirus cases, ordinary people are helping to plug the gaps, risking their own health to bring care and supplies to often terrified, exhausted patients who've fallen through the cracks.
They are ordinary Thais like Ekapob Laungprasert, who said he suddenly realized that overworked nurses and hospitals needed as much help as those sick from COVID-19 did. The businessman helped set up one of the volunteer groups helping those in need. Saimai Will Survive is named after the Bangkok neighborhood where he lives.
With Thailand averaging about 14,000 new cases daily, 2,500 of them in Bangkok, thousands are left on their own.Responding to calls from neighbors and others, Ekapob, his team and others like them risk their own health to bring care and supplies to the COVID-19 patients who would otherwise fall through the cracks.
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