Compensation sought by wounded Lop Buri target
PUBLISHED: 9 Mar 2024 at 04: 47
The Department of National Parks, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation ( DNP ) is likely to add monkeys to its list of wild animals whose damage results in compensation payments to the victims.
The expected shift comes after a person hurt when she was attacked by a monkey registered a problem with police on Friday in a shift to cover the cost of her health care.
Arikanta Kanchanasinmetha met police at Tha Hin station in Muang district of Lop Buri on Friday  , and requested that government formally enroll her complaint so that she would possess an established document to use in her request for health insurance.
She did not say to which company or business she may qualify for the insurance.
” How come we have reached the point of registering a problem with primates involved”, her younger sibling wrote on his Instagram account under the name of Jah Ice Thap Fah.
Ms Arikanta was assaulted by the lemurs at 7.30pm on Wednesday while walking on a road in Muang area, according to a version of the problem posted by her nephew. One of the lemurs had bounce- kicked her in the rear, knocked her down and stole her meal, leaving her lying injured. Her left leg was dislocated and she sustained slight wounds. She was sent to Lop Buri Hospital by save participants and discharged afterwards.
” I was about to get into my vehicle and all of a sudden I found myself lying in the street. I told my brother that I fell over and could not get up”, she told reporters on Thursday.
Phadet Laithong, chairman of the Wildlife Conservation Office of the DNP, said the victim may file a complaint with the DNP, but reimbursement now only covers harm done by animals and gaurs.
The chimps are protected by the Wildlife Conservation and Protection Act Get 2562, although officials are now considering their incorporation so settlement payment can go to sufferers of attacks.
Monkeys have been troubling people in Lop Buri for several years with a new study finding that there was a community of 5, 709 primates living crazy in the state in 2023.
Regulators have already initiated a strategy to clean all wild primates to minimize their numbers, he said.