Taweesilp tops reshuffle of senior health officials

Taweesilp: Climbing the ranks
Taweesilp: Rising the ranks

The cupboard yesterday appointed Taweesilp Visanuyothin, an inspector-general at the Public Health Ministry, as the ministry’s deputy permanent admin as part of the reassignment associated with senior officials suggested by the ministry that will take effect on April 1 .

Dr Taweesilp has become a familiar sight in order to viewers during televised daily updates for the coronavirus pandemic when he also serves as the spokesman for the Center for Covid-19 Scenario Administration.

Dr Taweesilp was once a spokesman for your Department of Psychological Health before presuming a similar role for the ministry.

He was movie director of the Child and Adolescent Mental Wellness Rajanagarindra Institute through 2009 to 2013 and later became the Public Health Ministry’s inspector-general on April 1, 2020.

Other reassigned senior officials include Tares Krassanairawiwong, director-general of the Department associated with Health Service Assistance, who was made director-general of the Department of Disease Control.

Thongchai Keeratihattayakorn, deputy permanent admin, was appointed director-general of the Department associated with Medical Services.

The exchange of Yongyot Thammawut, director general of the Department of Thailänder Traditional and Substitute Medicine, to the publish of deputy long term secretary, has taken much attention as he is a member of the Countryside Doctor Society, which is known to have engaged in anti-government activities.