Committee to investigate prison officers over deaths of 4 inmates

By The Nation

 

 

The Department of Corrections has established a committee to investigate officers in Phitsanulok Prison after four prisoners died over the New Year.

 

 

The department’s director-general, Pol Colonel Naras Savestanan, said on Saturday (January 4) that after the incident, the department had sent the director of the Medical Service Division, with assistance from the director of the Bureau of Epidemiology under the Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health to investigate the cause of the deaths at Wangthong Hospital.

 

“The investigation report stated that all four inmates may have died from food-related illness with low potassium level,” he said.

 

Naras initially concluded that there must be errors in the raw-food purchasing and inspection process, including the food quality.

 

“This year, the selection method was under the Finance Ministry’s regulations, so it should not have any issues about delivering poor quality foods to prisons,” he added.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30380149

 

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"Food-poisoning"?? Maybe. Maybe not.

Only 4 deaths to get an investigation going how fast things move guessing someone nicked the dinner money same as the school kids ????

Yep, it's now all in hand - the committee will very quickly get to the bottom of it - - not. 

8 minutes ago, Artisi said:

Yep, it's now all in hand - the committee will very quickly get to the bottom of it - - not. 

Id  like to  see their  dinner  menu

If that picture is an example of the meals they get in prison,

I would say the cause would be starvation.

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3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Naras initially concluded that there must be errors in the raw-food purchasing and inspection process, including the food quality.

 

Could we thus assume that they died from.........…...…......….corruption?

How does one explain the absolute Thai faith in committees and sub committees? It seems to me that every problem is referred to one sub committee or another and left there to rot.

6 hours ago, rooster59 said:

under the Finance Ministry’s regulations, so it should not have any issues about delivering poor quality foods to prisons,” he added.

No issues at all. Poor quality food delivery is guaranteed.

like the schools principles that were cutting the kids food to pocket more for themselves the same is happening here, less food, cheaper not so fresh food but bigger profits for the ones running the prisons, graft and corruption rule in Thailand

 

58 minutes ago, seajae said:

like the schools principles that were cutting the kids food to pocket more for themselves the same is happening here, less food, cheaper not so fresh food but bigger profits for the ones running the prisons, graft and corruption rule in Thailand

 

Really! 

Sarcasm - for those who who can't see it.... 

I also got food poisoned 1. Jan, with painful fever, stomach pain, cramps and a bloody diarrhea and just started to feel better today after started taking Norfloxacin a couple of days ago. First time in the 10 years I've been in Thailand I've fallen ill to food... I've heard from my wife that many others around new year also got food poisoned around several villages here outside Udon Thani.

 

Could be production related, or it could just be lots of people and bad food hygiene.

9 hours ago, Artisi said:

Yep, it's now all in hand - the committee will very quickly get to the bottom of it - - not. 

Yep easy, not enough salt so they died. Next case...

13 hours ago, rooster59 said:

“This year, the selection method was under the Finance Ministry’s regulations, so it should not have any issues about delivering poor quality foods to prisons,” he added.

Money to be made by cutting back on quality...

 

Prisoners may have died from toxic goiter

By The Nation

 

Pol Col Naras Savestanan

 

The recent death of four prisoners in Phitsanulok Prison were presumably caused by toxic goiter from consuming contaminated foods, such as chicken meat and pork, said Director-General of the Department of Corrections Pol Col Naras Savestanan said on January 5.

 

Buddhachinaraj Hospital and Wang Thong Hospital reported that the 25 prisoners transferred to the hospitals, due to limb numbness and tachycardia, all had low potassium in their blood.

 

Earlier, two of the four inmates were said to have died from heart failure with the other two from coronary artery disease.

 

Pol Col Naras said he believed that the environment and food sanitation at the prison were up to safety standards, adding that personnel from Phitsanulok Provincial Public Health Office are screening prisoners for signs of toxic goiter.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30380174

 

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I must be missing something, the report about the food makes no sense at all to me.

Low potassium food will not cause death after one meal, rarely does food poisoning kill four people, without most of those who consumed the food becoming extremely unwell

25 admitted to hospital with low potassium levels, after one meal is very weird, but this is Thailand  

On 1/5/2020 at 7:05 AM, rooster59 said:

Committee to investigate prison officers over deaths of 4 inmates

........................large committee buffet ordered ahead of time

A low potassium level has many causes but usually results from vomiting, diarrhea, adrenal gland disorders, or use of diuretics.

A low potassium level can make muscles feel weak, cramp, twitch, or even become paralyzed, and abnormal heart rhythms may develop.

The diagnosis is based on blood tests to measure the potassium level.

Usually, eating foods rich in potassium or taking potassium supplements by mouth is all that is needed

Contaminated foods SUPPLIED by the Correction Facility ….!!

16 hours ago, HOAX said:

I also got food poisoned 1. Jan, with painful fever, stomach pain, cramps and a bloody diarrhea and just started to feel better today after started taking Norfloxacin a couple of days ago. First time in the 10 years I've been in Thailand I've fallen ill to food... I've heard from my wife that many others around new year also got food poisoned around several villages here outside Udon Thani.

 

Could be production related, or it could just be lots of people and bad food hygiene.

BAD FOOD Hygiene, unsanitary handling of food, dirty food containers PLUS many people walking past coughing and sneezing , means that unless you have the constitution of an OX most people WILL suffer some problems

Food hygiene is not high on the list in Thailand I always say in low season around here is when many people get food poisoning they dont throw anything away

Two shrimp in each plate......they must have taken out the chicken bones for the picture!

On 1/5/2020 at 7:44 AM, Chazar said:

Id  like to  see their  dinner  menu

There's no such thing as a free lunch except in Thailand where the hundreds of Committees have a weekly meeting; they come up with no workable ideas but eat a lot.

2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

........................large committee buffet ordered ahead of time

Not prison food Im sure

2 hours ago, Khun Paul said:

Contaminated foods SUPPLIED by the Correction Facility ….!!

Thats correct 

They should have fed "Jack the Ripper" with this kind of rotten food....

Why don't they try Nascent Iodine in their diet. Goiter is Thyroid dysfunction. Low Thyroid low power to recover from toxins.

“The investigation report stated that all four inmates may have died from food-related illness with low potassium level,” he said.

 

Naras initially concluded that there must be errors in the raw-food purchasing and inspection process, including the food quality.

 

The food in the article looks so Yummy!!!

 

     Raw food purchasing error? Perhaps a beat the shi_e out of inmates error?

 

But I'd never have thought that these people with their Smiles in their faces would be capable of doing that.

 

  It was an unknown virus, or a bacteria that only the prison guards are aware of.

 

Don't they get their food made by the same "raw foods" that are delivered? Of course only the best of the best for these friendly guys.

 

   

On 1/5/2020 at 1:51 PM, Pedrogaz said:

How does one explain the absolute Thai faith in committees and sub committees? It seems to me that every problem is referred to one sub committee or another and left there to rot.

They got the idea from the UK.

 

I mean, 22 years just to DECIDE to build a third runway at Heathrow? Seven years to declare Tony Blair whiter than white? Thailand is, by comparison, humming along.

11 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

I must be missing something, the report about the food makes no sense at all to me.

Low potassium food will not cause death after one meal, rarely does food poisoning kill four people, without most of those who consumed the food becoming extremely unwell

25 admitted to hospital with low potassium levels, after one meal is very weird, but this is Thailand  

Your not really missing anything so long as you bear in mind where you are.....