Ex-commerce minister Boonsong to be sent to Police Hospital for operation

Ex-commerce minister Boonsong to be sent to Police Hospital for operation

Former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom, who is serving a 42-year jail term in connection with the scandal-tainted rice deal with China, will be allowed to leave Klong Prem prison for an operation at the Police General Hospital, Corrections Department chief Pol Col Narat Sawettanan said on Tuesday.

He said the department’s hospital did not have an operation room and equipment necessary to perform a surgery. He said Boonsong will have to undergo an operation for problems with spinal chord or neck bone.

However, he said that under the department’s protocol, two prison officials would be sent to accompany Boonsong at the hospital around the clock.

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