. Violence scares off medics
The southernmost provinces still lack an adequate number of forensic doctors and psychiatrists as the insurgency keeps them away, according to medical personnel Forensic doctors choose to work elsewhere in Thailand because they fear for their safety in the troubled region Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Prince of Songkla University (PSU)'s director of the Institute of Research and Development for Health of Southern Thailand, said the public health system in the deep South was not short of financial support but human capital remains scarce. .