By looking at the statistic from the Institute for Population and Social Research Mahidol University, the total population of Thailand is around 65 million and the majority of the population living in the rural is 56 million. This shows that the country doesn’t wholly depend on urban cities. In fact the country depends more in the rural where the majority of people work in agriculture which it is considered as Thailand’s strongest economy. However, according to the statistic of the Office of Welfare Promotion, Protection and Empowerment of Vulnerable Groups in 2011 the peoples rate of living after age of 60 in faraway rural areas are 2-6 % less than the urban or provinces closer to the capital. There are a lot of factors which caused the population of rural dwellers to have lower-rates of living healthily, but there is prevention. The most effective prevention that could extend lives and cure health problems are health institutes like hospitals. Yet, rural hospitals still haven’t been able to fully save lives. They need more funds from the government because these hospitals do not fulfill the patients’ need and still far away from meeting the urban hospitals standards like Bangkok.
Reasons that contribute to the lack of hospital efficiency are the insufficient and out of date medical equipments. As well as the limited facilities that does not offer enough waiting areas for