A POLICE fact-finding committee has started investigating two doctors suspended for assisting de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra stay for six months in a Police Hospital suite instead of prison to serve out a curtailed one-year jail term until he was released on parole early last year, TV Channel 7 said this evening
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Medical Council asked to probe Thaksin’s doctors
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE MEDICAL COUNCIL was today (Dec.25) petitioned to investigate allegations that certain doctors had violated a professional code of ethics to keep de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict Thaksin Shinawatra from jail. Former Democrat MP Watchara Petthong filed the petition against doctors of Bangkok Remand Prison and Police Hospital with Itthaporn
Read moreTwo fake doctors nabbed in raid of bogus clinics
TWO fake doctors were caught while treating patients at their respective unlicenced clinics with one being in Bangkok and the other Pathum Thani, Thai Rath newspaper said today (Mar. 19). Pol. Maj. Gen. Anan Nanasombat, head of Consumer Protection Police, and Pol. Col. Suphot Phumyam, head of Consumer Protection Police Division 4, led a
Read moreAnutin-hyping roadside billboards may break election law: Rural Doctor Society
By Thai Newsroom Reporters RURAL DOCTOR SOCIETY today (Jan.30) questioned whether 11,000-plus roadside billboards may illicitly solicit popularity for Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul during a current run-up to a general election. Rural Doctor Society posted on its Facebook page to call on the Election Commission to determine whether the 11,000-plus large
Read moreRural doctors: Big shortage of Covid drugs
MEMBERS of the Rural Doctor Society revealed in the group’s Facebook page chat today (July 18) that there is now a big shortage of two key Covid medicines, Favipiravir and Molnupiravir, despite the Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO) saying there is no scarcity, Sanook.com said. The rural doctors said supply is so limited that one
Read moreEmergency room doctor blasted for refusing to treat sick woman
A VIDEO CLIP shared on Thai social media by a woman whose mother was gravely ill showing an emergency room doctor at Chiang Dao Hospital, in Chiang Mai province, refusing to treat her and telling them to go home has gone viral and attracted a lot of criticism, Amarin TV said. The five-minute-long clip
Read moreDoctor transforms into Spider-Man to send 3-year-old Covid patient home
A DOCTOR at Nong Bua Daeng Hospital, Chaiyaphum province, took on the role of superhero Spider-Man in sending a three-year-old boy who has recovered from coronavirus home to help with the mental healing process because hospitalised children become stressed, Thai Rath newspaper said this evening (May 7). The doctors and nurses at this hospital believe
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