I heard the $3 per day rate, too, but it was for a fairly limitied service following bypass surgery. The 'health care workers' are trained to make sure prescribed medications are given, walks are taken, and high fat foods are avoided, as well as recognize problems and call an ambulance. They stay in the hotel room with the newly released patient, and, of course, get food.
You see young women in Chiang Mai walking with men who can barely put one foot in front of the other. That's not part of the sex trade, but part of medical tourism.
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