April 27, 2007: Elephant hospital in Thailand

[Griff]

Things must be moving forward for the economy in Thailand. If you think about the crazy resources that went into Barbaro, folks have to be pretty productive to sustain what could be considered nonsense, but produces unoticed benefits for veterinary science. Is Thailand producing excess wealth or is this a barebones operation to put the animals back to work?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Griff

Things must be moving forward for the economy in Thailand. If you think about the crazy resources that went into Barbaro, folks have to be pretty productive to sustain what could be considered nonsense, but produces unoticed benefits for veterinary science. Is Thailand producing excess wealth or is this a barebones operation to put the animals back to work?

Friends of Asian Elephants, Elephant Hospital is the Worlds first Elephant hospital project.

Budget : Approx. 10 Million Baht/Year
Infirmary Units, Resting Unit, Baby Infirmary,
Laboratory approx. 20 million Baht

1 Thai baht = 0.0307772802 U.S. dollar

National Elephant Institute, under the patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani, has established a free elephant hospital.

Because the infirmary of the Institute was too small to cope with all the sick elephants waiting to be treated, funds were donated to build a free public elephants hospital at the Institute. It still lacks equipment and medical supplies, a water treatment system and a crane. This is necessary because sick elephants cannot stand up on their own; a crane is needed to pull them up.

Sadly it sounds like they have a ways to go.

[busterb]

xoxoxoBruce 1 Thai baht = 0.0307772802 U.S. dollar

Time moves on. One time Thailand was one of the few that didn't play the money market. ! baht was a 5 cents. Just how much money US is the above number?