POLICE Hospital’s chief doctor sent his lawyer to the Ministry of Public Health to appeal for fairness after the Medical Council punished three doctors for admitting de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra for treatment there for around six months until his released on parole early last year, Amarin TV said yesterday (May 13).
Medical Council vice-president Prasit Watanapa announced after last Friday’s meeting that 60 councillors had not clinically found Thaksin, father of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, as being “critically ill” as earlier claimed in public after the mega-billionaire power player had been transferred from Bangkok Remand prison’s hospital to Police Hospital where he had stayed for a six-month time until he released on parole early last year.
The Medical Council temporarily withdrew the medical licence of two unidentified doctors with a third given a warning.
However, Pol. Lt. Gen. Dr. Taweesilp Wetchavitarn, Police Hospital’s chief doctor, sent his lawyer Mr. Netithorn Lintakul, to this ministry to submit his appeal for fairness on grounds of the Medical Council’s conclusion being reached on the basis of incomplete data and admitting Thaksin to the 14th floor private ward was done according to the regulations because he had a specific disease.
Pol. Lt. Gen. Dr. Taweesilp said he was uncomfortable with news about this case being widely covered with this affecting his reputation and image and he considered this a personal matter.
As assigned, Netithorn submitted Pol. Lt. Gen. Dr. Taweesilp’s petition to Lt. Col. Dr. Thanakrit Chit-areerat, assistant to Public Health Minister Somsak Thepsuthin, yesterday.
Nevertheless, it remains to be seen whether Public Health Minister Somsak who concurrently acts as special chair of the Medical Council may veto the council’s resolution pertaining to Thaksin’s truthful health conditions.
If the Pheu Thai-attached public health minister vetoed the Medical Council’s resolutions for whatever conceivable reasons, a minimum of two-thirds of the councillors would be needed to reassert and finally render the resolution effective, according to the council’s vice-president.
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Pol. Lt. Gen. Dr. Taweesilp Wetchavitarn, left, and de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, right. Photo: Amarin TV
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