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member states. Engineers from Thailand? Nurses from the

Philippines? Because if you looked at the ratio between
medical doctors and the population – patients - you would see
that in many countries including Thailand, particularly in the

rural area, the ratio is still a very big gap, compared to Bangkok;
doctor per population, engineer per population, architect per

population, dentist per population, we still need more.

One of the concerns is how about brain drain. How
you address that problem? Those doctors from a country that

has trained them, invested in them, are now going to move to
countries for economies that could still need them and could

still pay even more. Countries will have to put up. Some said
that trained workers, skilled workers shall not flow out to the
point where the countries of origin suffer by that out flow of

the brain, what they call brain drain. Early on, there was this
concern that engineers and architects were moving to Singapore,

that dentists will move to Malaysia, that trained Vietnamese
doctors might move to Thailand because the pay is higher.

These are also legitimate concerns, but the countries

can establish rules and regulations that could keep those
people inside until a certain time. We have suffered these

people; with nurses going to America from Thailand but now the
American be in America, they are coming back because at the
age of 55-65 they are still active and they would rather want

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