Health Promoting Hospital

We visited the Ban Saluang Nok Sub-District in a rural part of Chiang Mai. We listened to a lecture by the head nurse of the hospital on how they are actively engaging the community members through activities, prayer sessions and home visits. We were fortunate enough to be invited into the home of one of their long-term patients. He was an 80-year-old man with hypertension and other comorbidities. He was bed ridden due to disease progression that led to both his legs being amputated. He lives with his wife in a home donated to them by the villagers where she dresses/changes his bandages every day, twice a day. It was an eye-opening experience, his wife was so gracious for letting us into her home and the villagers were very welcoming. It was a completely different way of looking at health care and an experience I will never forget.