Audio lab for blind at Bangkok Hospital Phuket

Those who are facing problems with their eye sight in Phuket, Phang-Nga and Krabi provinces will have less problems accessing news, information, books and computer content they wish to know, with new audio lab services offered at Bangkok Hospital in Phuket. The president of the Blind Association in Phuket, Sukon Krobbuaban, was the first to test out the efficiency of the machine at the Hospitals library which is opening for people who have eye problems in order for them to have more opportunities in news access and book reading.
Sukon told us about his concerns and talked about this opportunity for the blind.
"I would like more people to come and use the audio books at the facility. And on behalf of the members in the association, I would like to thank the Hospital for this great opportunity for the blind. The audio library is a new useful source of knowledge. Thank you for giving us the location, library and audio books."
The Phuket Vice Governor, Tri Akkaradecha also participated in audio reading program for the blind.

Other people can volunteer to read for the blind by phoning in and booking a time with the hospital reception. The volunteer readers will have to attend a preparation class to learn about the audio machine; then they are required to record their voices, so the hospital can put their voices into audio books to keep at the hospitals library for future use.

Audio books will be sent out to other libraries that are equipped with computers and will target the blind audiences
After officiating over the audio library on February 10th, Dr.Kongkiat Kespechara, director of Bangkok Hospital Phuket expects the facility to help the blind society.

The audio library and café is located next to Bangkok Hospital Phuket on the same property in Sam Kong.
Imagine if you were blind, how difficult life can be? But this service helps them and you too can help them by volunteering your voices in Thai or in English. Please contact Bangkok Hospital Phuket on their hotline numbers 1719 or telephone 076254425 or see www.phukethospital.com
This is Zenniesha reporting for Andaman News.

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