Not only academic services, the Department of Tropical Hygiene also takes responsibility in community services. Besides several training programs and research works the department provides, health care services at Rajanagarindra Tropical Disease International Centre , so called RTIC, one of field research centers of the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, located in Suan Phung district of Ratchaburi province. The Centre has been operated under The Tropical Disease Trust Fund since 1998 when Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krom Luang Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra kindly presided over the opening ceremony of the centre.
Sited in the heart of malaria endemic area along Thai-Myanmar border, free-of-charge services at this centre are widely benefit to those people living in its vicinity area who suffered from malaria and other tropical diseases in terms of diagnostic services and primary medications. |
