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10 NOVEMBER 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Ruamkatanyu Foundation medical team tries to save the life of a boy hit by a vehicle near the Klong Toey slum in Bangkok. The child had severe head injuries and died at the scene. The Ruamkatanyu Foundation was started more than 60 years ago as a charitable organisation that collected the dead and transported them to the nearest facility. Crews sometimes found that the person they had been called to collect wasn't dead, and they were called upon to provide emergency medical care. That's how the foundation medical and rescue service was started. The foundation has 7,000 volunteers nationwide and along with the larger Poh Teck Tung Foundation, is one of the two largest rescue services in the country. The volunteer crews were once dubbed Bangkok's "Body Snatchers" but they do much more than that now. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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10 NOVEMBER 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Ruamkatanyu Foundation medical team tries to save the life of a boy hit by a vehicle near the Klong Toey slum in Bangkok. The child had severe head injuries and died at the scene. The Ruamkatanyu Foundation was started more than 60 years ago as a charitable organisation that collected the dead and transported them to the nearest facility. Crews sometimes found that the person they had been called to collect wasn't dead, and they were called upon to provide emergency medical care. That's how the foundation medical and rescue service was started. The foundation has 7,000 volunteers nationwide and along with the larger Poh Teck Tung Foundation, is one of the two largest rescue services in the country. The volunteer crews were once dubbed Bangkok's "Body Snatchers" but they do much more than that now. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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