Subject: |
The Mahidol Wongsanusorn
Building located at the Thai Red Cross
Compound in
Bangkok
and a laboratory worker. The building houses a laboratory of
the Science Division, where the BCG vaccine, which is
used to prevent tuberculosis, is produced and tested. The
laboratory opened on 4
April 1953, after King
Bhumiphon
in 1951 donated 500,000 Baht to the
project
from his private funds, following the 1950 initiative of the
WHO and UNICEF, in partnership with the Ministry of Public
Health's Department of Hygiene, to attempt to stop the
presence of TBC in Thailand. |