Four state agencies and a private foundation forged an alliance to confront the escalating crisis of mentally unstable homeless individuals.
The groundbreaking Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), inked yesterday, January 22, binds the Social Development and Welfare Department, the Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth), the Mental Health Department, the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Department, and the privately operated Mirror Foundation.
Under the MoU’s provisions, all signatories gain the ability to interlink their databases encompassing homeless populations, hospital patients, and those reported missing. This collaborative effort will facilitate the tracing of families of homeless individuals.
Dr Sirisak Thitidilokrat, Deputy Director-General of the Mental Health Department, highlighted recent studies revealing the dearth of…
