The doctors who are allegedly involved in treating a former prime minister who has been imprisoned are the focus of the ethics research.
PUBLISHED: 19 Dec 2024 at 16: 29
Thailand’s Medical Council is requesting detailed information from Police General Hospital regarding Thaksin Shinawatra‘s condition, therapy, and extended stay there instead of prison.
In response to claims that favors had been made to allow the original leading to remain at the doctor, a subcommittee led by Dr. Amorn Leelarasamee, a former committee president, is conducting an honest investigation.
The sub-committee, which is seeking to establish whether health professionals breached any honest guidelines, apparently sent a written need to the director-general of the doctor on Monday.
It demanded information about Thaksin’s entrance and treatment, all medical professionals who treated him, their statements about the treatment, and all accredited documentation regarding his treatment for six months, beginning on January 1st, 2018.
It requested that the data be made available by January 15.
Democratic activists gathered on Wednesday at the National Anti-Corruption Commission’s headquarters to demand that it finish its investigation into Thaksin’s expanded clinic stay within the next three months.
They refute earlier claims that Thaksin’s health was brittle and that he appeared healthy and engaged in activities like golf and traveling shortly after leaving the hospital.
Thaksin paid all the expenses for his six-month remain, including a VIP room on the patient’s 14th surface that cost 8, 500 ringgit a day, a parliamentary commission was told next month.
Thaksin, who graduated from the Police Academy and worked at the Metropolitan Police Bureau before turning to business and then to elections,  , returned to the state on Aug , 22 last year after 15 years in self-imposed captivity.
He was taken to the Supreme Court that evening, where he received a sentence of eight years in prison for violating the constitution and having conflicts of interest while serving as prime minister earlier to 2006. Following the royal mercy, the sentence was afterwards reduced to a year.
Doctors at Bangkok Remand Prison decided that he should be transferred to the hospital because he had neck pain, hypertension, and lower blood oxygen levels on his first evening there.
Thaksin, 75, was legally permitted to get treatment outside captivity for , 120 days, but the Department of Corrections allowed him to maintain his hospital stay for 180 days, saying that problems in prison was threaten his career.
On the grounds that he was elderly and seriously ill, he was released from the hospital on February 18. When he arrived home, and on a few occasions over the course of the following month, he was seen wearing a neck brace and a sling on one arm.
Since then, however, he has been highly active, travelling around the country and campaigning enthusiastically for the Pheu Thai Party that is nominally headed by his daughter, the prime minister.
The former prime minister’s one-year prison term was officially overturned on August 31 of this year.
Thaksin Shinawatra has dinner with then-prime minister Srettha Thavisin ( left ) and former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat, who is also his brother-in-law, at Ban Green Valley in Mae Rim district of Chiang Mai on March 15 this year. ( Photo supplied )