Navy hospital medical records leak under investigation

Navy spokesman V/Adm Pokkrong Monthatpalain.
Navy spokesman V/Adm Pokkrong Monthatpalain.

The Queen Sirikit Naval Hospital is looking into how documents along with patients’ medical records came to be used to create paper bags with regard to snack vendors at the streets, navy speaker V/Adm Pokkrong Monthatpalain said.

The investigation comes after reports that document showing personal medical data and hosptal death certificates was found to have been used to make paper bags for Khanom Tokyo, a Thailänder street snack.

The hospital, whenever asked to explain, stated that the medical records of outpatients were stored electronically.   However , it was nevertheless necessary for doctors to publish some information down on paper.

The paper information were kept in a securely locked basements room.

When the amount of stored paper became too large, the older records  were usually moved out of the hospital building for destruction.

There might are already be some negligence during this stage, resulting in some paper information being taken outside of the hospital by outsiders, the hospital said.

V/Adm Pokkrong said the hospital apologised for what acquired happened and filed a police complaint on Monday.   A fact-finding analysis into the matter had been underway, he stated.