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I have to say I have never heard that having a Thai ID card gives you access to the Thai healthcare system although I do have one. Long before I obtained one I had no trouble accessing outpatient treatment at a Government hospital and have always been charged the Thai person rate. I know others without the card and even visitors who have accessed the government hospital system.

If you have lived here as an adult you would probably be aware that every office often has different procedures. Can you not get someone here to contact the office or obtain the telephone number and call them yourself.

I find it hard to believe that Thailand is the only country that shows disinterest. I would be interested to know what response he gets from Myanmar, where the Shan State army are supposedly involved in the manufacture of Met-amphetamines most of which seems to be trafficked here.

Probably the best advice I have read today, ask at the office you deal with. I don’t have a girl friend but my wife in the past has been excellent at translating the questions. You need to train them well !!!

I agree it is but that’s the way of the world, it runs on credit businesses, governments etc etc

It’s no different in most Western countries the concept of live and spend now and pay later ( or not pay ) has been around for more years than I can remember. Credit in the West particularly with credit cards has been so easy to obtain that people are sucked in. When I lived in Australia I regularly received offers of a new credit card with a guaranteed large credit limit. My own bank used to automatically increase my credit limit every year which I then had to decline. I paid my balance in full every month so no interest was paid.o

If you have a bank account with funds in Thailand presumably you will receive interest minuscule as it may be. Obtaining a tax number is very easy allowing you then to claim it back. Personally I don’t bother. know of others who do this.

Thanks for your comment the good thing is kids soon bounce back and she was treated in Chiang Mai Ram an excellent private hospital where she was born. We always take her there if a problem sees the same pediatrician who is brilliant. Has since had her first shot of Pfizer and due the booster end of August no side effects except doesn’t like needles. We live in the North of Chiang Mai Province and she got hers shot at one of the local hospitals it was full of kids good to see We are certainly not anti vaccination but there seemed to be mixed advice on the minimum age so we waited until she was six. I suppose now she like my wife will have the anti bodies as well hopefully as will your daughter.

They are both ok but our daughter now six and was unvaccinated spent two nights in hospital due to high temperature and vommiting.

I had two AZ which were free and two Moderna only the first was paid for. At 72 still alive and kicking no major side effects. Also a couple of months ago my wife and young daughter both contracted Covid, I didn’t She had received 2 Sinopharm and one Moderna, considering we all live in the same house and my wife and I share the same bed, maybe mine worked.

My daughter holds Thai, Australian and UK citizenship and passports.The UK authorities know because last time her UK passport was renewed we had to send copies of every page of the other two.

Perhaps you should, never know when the grim reaper is lurking around the corner!

Wouldn’t it be easier for you and your Thai friend to go to your local District Office and find out the correct procedure. As we know procedures can vary from office to office.

You should watch some of the UK hospital programs, you might be surprised how many so called healthy and fit people, particularly in that age group collapse suddenly when exercising and often die.

The only Department that seems to have got their act together is the Department that issues passports, whatever they want you to produce is scanned into their system, the same applied with the now defunct Thailand Pass all done on line, I think it it is the same Department However it is not only Thailand, my daughter holds three passports. When we renewed her UK passport we we had to produce copies of every page of the other two even though they were blank.

Remember the proposal a few years ago that all incoming tourists would be issued with a SIM card on arrival, so they could be tracked? another well thought out scheme that disappeared into the ether.

Remember the proposal a few years ago that all incoming tourists would be issued with a SIM card on arrival, so they could be tracked? another well thought out scheme that disappeared into the ether.

Flying is a means of getting to a place quickly and far safer than by road in any country, as statistics show. Try flying Business Class then perhaps you might enjoy the experience.

If he added the words “ on costs “ after the word “ saving” it would have been better but made sense to me.

We have used them in the past to renew our daughters UK passport. The service is excellent.p

That’s what I did years ago with our home and adjoining land plus our motel and apartments. Once I depart this world I will have no need for them as I wouldn’t if I lived in Australia or elsewhere.

In the UK and Australia the term “ bent” when referring to police or even others usually suggests they are corrupt.

I don’t believe they have magistrates in Thailand.

Police can release persons on bail in the UK and Australia

Those charges wouldn’t even happen in a Western Country. Only a charge with a similar penalty to manslaughter and even then they don’t always go to jail.