Bangkok hosts World Medical Association General Assemble 2012

BANGKOK, October 11 (TNA) - The World Medical Association General Assemble, this year, is taking place in Bangkok, as a platform for over 300 world leading medical experts to address health problems faced by large cities worldwide. The key medical personnel from, for instance, Bangkok, Chicago, Tokyo and São Paulo, participating the four-day global forum, scheduled for October 10-13, are discussing and exchanging their knowledge and experiences on diseases and illnesses detected in their cities. The global delegates have agreed so far that more diseases, previously emerged in rural areas, have now been detected in urban areas as a result of influx of rural people's migrations to large cities, where more pollution, wastes and congestion have also been found. Discussions at the global forum also include medical services, doctors/population ratios and legal actions against doctors alleged in specific cases. Dr. Wonchat Subhachaturas, President of the Medical Association of Thailand, acknowledged even though the growth of population in the Thai capital has not been as fast as that in other world large cities, similar diseases and illnesses have been reported, namely digestive sickness and stress, calling on global cooperation to prevent and handle the urban diseases and illnesses. (TNA)