After weeks spent living in unsanitary conditions, including filthy chest-high water, victims of the floods in northern Bangkok have finally been sent aid.
A relief caravan of 32 trucks laden with fresh water arrived in flood-deluged neighbourhoods that are still overflowing with uncollected rubbish and are without electricity or running water. 80 garbage trucks and vehicles carrying water filters and food trucks were also in the convoy.
During the floods water bubbled out of sewers and those residents who could not escape in time were left living in severely unsanitary conditions that also attracted swarms of mosquitoes. No major disease outbreaks have been reported as yet, according to Reuters.
Thai officials dropped purifying balls into flooded areas in an attempt to fight possible disease.
Thai government officials also sent 100 trucks carrying floating toilets to be used until floodwaters drain, along with 1,000 portable toilets and 60 trucks carrying medical personnel. Evacuation busses to assist moving flood victims to safer areas were also sent into the area, according to the TNA.
"It's definitely a big challenge because of the quantity or mass of water that's coming through. I don't think we've ever had to deal with such large amounts of water," said Rekha Hanvesakul, a doctor at BNH Hospital in Bangkok who was shocked by the conditions.