The National Institute for Emergency Medicine (Niem) will begin disbursing a 969-million-baht budget it has earmarked to settle overdue payments for emergency response services provided by rescue foundations.
The overdue payments will be cleared in September before the new fiscal year kicks off in October, according to Niem.
The budget is set for release in response to complaints this week by eight rescue foundations in the Northeast, which said they had not received financial support from the institute for months.
The overdue…