Division
of Analysis
Testing of water samples from an army hospital. |
"Good health-great soldier"are set as the gold standard of the Analysis Division. The ultimate mission of the Analysis Division is to care for health and well-being of the RTA personnel. The Division conducts health promotion and preventive medicine researches together with other services to encounter environmental, occupational, narcotic drugs, and diseases as well as zoonosis threats to health. |
The Division’s health promotion and wellness
programs include standard laboratory tests that help
to assess soldiers’ health and provide individuals with
recommendations of how to improve their overall
fitness. With drug abuse still being recognized as a
national threat, the Division annually runs more than
20,000 morphine, amphetamine and marijuana
screenings as well as confirmations for both serviced
members and military school applicants. Environmental
health problems among the RTA personnel within
their living quarters and working area are the
Division’s other main concern. In these aspects,
monitoring of water and wastewater qualities in the
RTA installations and the assessment of occupational
health in workers exposed to toxic substances in the
military industrial plants are routinely carried out.
Furthermore, the Division also conducts zoonotic
studies in laboratory animals which help in
addressing many problems with respect to
leptospirosis and rickettsial diseases. The culture of
Leptospira in our laboratory is well recognized and
used as one of the reference laboratories in Thailand.
Various studies concerning the evaluation of new
medical devices, such as the wound healing pad that
reduces the recovery time for most puncture or
abrasion injuries in laboratory animals is currently of
the main interest and is also being carried out in the
Division.
For more information, please visit AFRIMS Thai Component site at www.afrims.go.th
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