An estimated 5,000 Burmese were missing after the tsunami struck the coast and many more found themselves in a precarious situation having lost their papers or job after the tourist industry collapsed. MSF is now working with a local NGO to set up public health workshops to inform migrants from different parts of Phang Nga province about basic health care and sanitation and to help them gain access to needed health care.

Operational budget: Mââ?š¬0.11 Staff at the end of Jan. 2005: 5 international and 3 national

MSF has been working in Thailand since 1983, providing AIDS care as well as assisting refugees and migrants.