Tourism Ministry to pay Bt64 million in compensation to Phuket boat victims

By The Nation

 

 

The Tourism Ministry will pay compensations worth Bt63.96 million from its accident fund to victims of two boats that sank in the Andaman Sea near Phuket on July 5, the permanent secretary said on Monday.

 

Pongpanu Sawetrun, permanent secretary for Tourism and Sports Ministry, said the ministry has a fund for compensating foreign tourist in cases of accidents and the sum would be paid out within two days.

 

Pongpanu was speaking to reporters after the fund managers met and agreed to pay the sum.

 

He said 56 deceased victims would each receive compensation of Bt1 million, while 10 injured tourists would be eligible for medical-cost assistance of Bt500,000 each. The medical-related payout would reimburse hospitals for those costs not covered by other state and private agencies.

 

He added that the 74 survivors would be eligible for Bt20,000 compensation each, totalling Bt1.48 million. They would also receive another Bt20,000 for the disruption of their travel, totalling Bt1.48 million.

 

Pongpanu said the tourism ministry would also coordinate with the committee supervising insurance businesses to ensure the insurance firms rush their compensation payments to victims.

 

Pongpanu said the tour company and the boat company had also purchased insurance policies for the passengers.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30349653

 

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In the other thread it said there were 41 dead and 5 unaccounted for so why is this article talking about 56 deceased victims receiving compensation?

Get the money out that will make like it never happened. 

What wrong guys? The directly responsible peoples are the tour operators and not the government (the government is indirectly responsible for), so they must pay compensation, what I know is that they have enough money and property for cover it.

Too bad there was no Chinese harbour master to blame who let the boats go out to sea under critical weather conditions.