Pro active attitude

Thailand rushes condoms to flood victims

BANGKOK—Thailand scrambled Wednesday to airlift condoms and other emergency health supplies to victims of its worst floods in decades to prevent a feared surge in unplanned pregnancies.

Five helicopters began transporting medicine and other provisions from the Public Health Ministry in Bangkok to seven locations

“Local volunteers told us that villagers have nothing to do during the floods, so to prevent a baby boom we added condoms too,” an official at the Emergency Medical Institute of Thailand told AFP.

“We can’t stop it raining and it’s difficult to drain water into the sea.  We have done everything we can but it’s not enough,” he told reporters.