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Thailand wants to pay its village health volunteers a real wage

Thailand is consulting the public on a law that would formally recognise Community Nursing Volunteers and pay them 15,000 baht a month — finally giving a salary to the village health volunteers who carried the country's primary care, especially through the pandemic years. Dignity, at last, for the neighbours who check on everyone else.

The upbeat factorThe people who care for every village may finally get cared for in return.
✓ Verified · Thailand Inquirer · 2026-09-11 · Thailand
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