PUBLISHED: 5 Apr 2025 at 03: 30
The Medical Council has postponed its decision on whether doctors who treated former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra at the Police General Hospital ( PGH) violated ethical standards after a probe committee received additional documents about the case.
The decision, originally scheduled for April 10, has been pushed up without a fresh date set. The wait has sparked criticism about a feasible try to shop the process.
In its statement, the council’s board said the committee received extra information from the PGH and the Department of Corrections ( DoC ) on March 31 and April 1, respectively.
Due to the large amount of paperwork, it needs more time to examine them, so the results will not be concluded and submitted to the government on Thursday as planned, it said.
Prof Dr Amorn Leelarasamee, who heads the sensor commission, acknowledged problems over the delay. When asked if this was a slowing technique, he said the commission is obliged to be rigorous and will finish the work as soon as possible.
” The documents we had are enough, but these novel information might help confirm certain information. I need to go through them properly, and that takes day”, he said.
As part of the sensor into the morality of the doctors who treated Thaksin, the inquiry committee demanded that both the PGH and the DoC palm over records related to his extended stay.
It demanded full particulars of Thaksin’s entrance, diagnosis and treatment, as well as the names of all those who treated him.
Thaksin, who was sentenced to eight years in prison for three cases before royal mercy cut his name to one month, spent all of his prison expression in a hospital on the 14th floor of the hospital.
After about six weeks, he was paroled and discharged from the PGH on Feb 18, with the former prime minister formally completing his one-year prison expression on Aug 31.
Previous senator Somchai Sawangkarn monday questioned if the sensor pause was intentional.
On his Instagram accounts, he relayed issues raised by a former member of the Medical Council claiming the papers were submitted later to buy more time. He warned that the reliability of the medical profession could be at hazard.
” I also believe in the Medical Council, but the information I’m hearing are troubling. If the problem isn’t handled correctly, belief in the Medical Council was collapse… just like the collapse of the State Audit Office building”, he wrote.