Military medics patrol flood-hit areas of Bangkok.<br/> Floodwaters in the north of the Thai capital have remained high for nearly two weeks.<br/> Medical teams like these are using boats to reach areas cut off by waters as high as 1.2 metres.<br/> The teams offer health checks to those who have had to evacuate their homes, delivering medicine and transporting the sick to hospital.<br/> (SOUNDBITE) (Thai) DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT AT PRA MONGKUT:<br/> "Some patients with chronic diseases cannot go to hospital and they don't have medicine, for example, a patient with diabetes and hypertension. We are trying our best to deliver them medicine, but if they're in serious condition, we will transfer them immediately to the hospital."<br/> The slow-moving disaster began after a tropical storm battered Southeast Asia in late July.<br/> Since then at least 529 people have been killed in floods that have inundated 63 of Thailand's 77 provinces.<br/> Simon Hanna, Reuters.
