“If you build it, they will come,” so said Kevin Costner’s character in the 1989 movie Field of Dreams. And the Thai PM, Prayuth Chan-o-cha, plans to take a leaf out of the Field of Dreams’ story book and do something similar by building and promoting a medical tourism hub to attract more foreign visitors to the country post-pandemic.
Thailand has a proven health record in dealing with the pandemic and is rated the world’s No.1 country for recovery in the Global Covid-19 Index.
The Thai nation drew praise from the World Health Organisation for its handling of the early phase of the pandemic, managing to keep total Covid-19 fatalities below 30,000, fewer than close neighbours Malaysia and the Philippines. The country’s Omicron wave has eased over the past month with new cases averaging around 5,000 a day, down from almost 30,000 in early April, so now is the ideal time…
