Former PM Thaksin still under care of Police General Hospital

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BANGKOK (NNT) - Police officers from the Metropolitan Police Bureau are now providing security protection at the Police General Hospital, where former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is receiving medical treatment.

 

An urgent memo signed by the commander of the Metropolitan Police Division 6 Pol Maj Gen Nakarin Sukontawit instructed officers to form a special team at Pathumwan Police Station to respond to any potential incident at the Police General Hospital.

 

The memo called for a rapid response team composed of a police inspector, a sub-inspector, and 4 non-commissioned police officers to be on standby at Pathumwan Police Station. The officers must be able to respond to an order within 15 minutes.

 

This rapid response team is being commissioned from 24 August to 31 August, or until the mission is complete.

There have been suspicions about the possibility of Mr. Thaksin being transferred from the Police General Hospital toa private facility.

 

In response, Deputy Permanent Secretary of Justice Sahakarn Petchnarin said saving an inmate’s life is necessary, which would justify if a sick patient is transferred to another hospital if his condition is beyond the treatment capabilities available at the Police General Hospital. The transfer will however be considered based on medical necessity.

 

Mr. Sahakarn said however that there is currently no need for Mr. Thaksin to be transferred to a private hospital, adding that the hospital to which Mr. Thaksin could be transferred to would be decided by the doctors and the Department of Corrections.

 

by Tanakorn Sangiam

 

 

Source: https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG230825084500677

 

-- NNT 2023-08-25

 

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[JoePai]

beyond the treatment capabilities available at the Police General Hospital

 

Is he trying to say the Police Hospital is not up to treating Cardiovascular diseases !

[steven100]

  On 8/25/2023 at 1:53 AM, webfact said:

said saving an inmate’s life is necessary

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     I hope they can save him

[CelticBhoy]

I bet he's using a lookalike. Some other joker with a squarish head.

The real Thaksin snuck into Don Mueang two hours after the fake one.

When the fake snuffs it he can dump the "in cognito" bit and walk the streets.

[ezzra]

Thaksin is suppose to be suffering of 'underlying heart issues' according to CNN, laying the grounds for a quick pardon, so what is happening now coincide with the playbook.

[bamnutsak]

Prelude to him being transferred to Praram 9 hospital.

 

The Shinwatra family is a majority shareholder in Praram 9 hospital.

 

Just need some time to spruce up the two top floors.

 

I think a Pardon will come in multiple steps, shaving a few years off the sentence, but a full Pardon might be months or years away.

 

 

 

 

[VinnieK]

  On 8/25/2023 at 2:24 AM, CelticBhoy said:

I bet he's using a lookalike. Some other joker with a squarish head.

The real Thaksin snuck into Don Mueang two hours after the fake one.

When the fake snuffs it he can dump the "in cognito" bit and walk the streets.

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Not unthinkable.

 

[malibukid]

  On 8/25/2023 at 2:43 AM, ezzra said:

Thaksin is suppose to be suffering of 'underlying heart issues' according to CNN, laying the grounds for a quick pardon, so what is happening now coincide with the playbook.

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all scripted

[hotchilli]

  On 8/25/2023 at 1:53 AM, webfact said:

This rapid response team is being commissioned from 24 August to 31 August, or until the mission is complete.

There have been suspicions about the possibility of Mr. Thaksin being transferred from the Police General Hospital toa private facility.

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Put an officer outside his door 24/7.

No-one comes out and no-one goes in, except hospital staff.

Thaksin sick is a complete and utter joke.

[brommers]

His whole story over the last days reads like a Jane Austen novel. So despite being well enough to jet around the globe and to be personally deciding on the new cabinet he has now had a "touch of the vapours" and needs a better hospital to give him oxygen. All he needed was someone to loosen his corsets! Theatre of the Absurd used to work for him but the new generation of voters can see right through his antics.

[newnative]

Unbelievable. 

[Red Forever]

  On 8/25/2023 at 6:44 AM, hotchilli said:

Put an officer outside his door 24/7.

No-one comes out and no-one goes in, except hospital staff.

Thaksin sick is a complete and utter joke.

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Aha, another anti-Mr T medical expert.

So you're saying that the doctors are lying. Jeez.

[PETERTHEEATER]

  On 8/25/2023 at 2:12 AM, JoePai said:

beyond the treatment capabilities available at the Police General Hospital

 

Is he trying to say the Police Hospital is not up to treating Cardiovascular diseases !

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I haven't got the heart to suggest otherwise......

[RichardColeman]

Wonder if he still gets prison meals ? 

[khunpeer]

  On 8/25/2023 at 7:01 AM, brommers said:

His whole story over the last days reads like a Jane Austen novel. So despite being well enough to jet around the globe and to be personally deciding on the new cabinet he has now had a "touch of the vapours" and needs a better hospital to give him oxygen. All he needed was someone to loosen his corsets! Theatre of the Absurd used to work for him but the new generation of voters can see right through his antics.

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I agree with you, it's just that that "new generation of voters" have hardly a say anymore...

very frustrating!

[herfiehandbag]

Is this the penal system equivalent of "working from home"?

[herfiehandbag]

  On 8/25/2023 at 1:53 AM, webfact said:

The memo called for a rapid response team composed of a police inspector, a sub-inspector, and 4 non-commissioned police officers to be on standby at Pathumwan Police Station. The officers must be able to respond to an order within 15 minutes.

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So, 15 minutes "notice to move";

an interesting take on a "rapid response team"!

[hotchilli]

  On 8/25/2023 at 8:58 AM, Red Forever said:

Aha, another anti-Mr T medical expert.

So you're saying that the doctors are lying. Jeez.

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Absolutely yes...

[jacko45k]

  On 8/25/2023 at 8:58 AM, Red Forever said:

Aha, another anti-Mr T medical expert.

So you're saying that the doctors are lying. Jeez.

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Possibly, they might you know.

Are you saying they are telling the complete and utter truth?

[Stargeezr]

I bet most of us cannot afford the menu that Mr. Thaksin eats off of.  

I also doubt Mr. Thaksin will be in jail long. Rich people live in a different world that most of us do.

   Welcome back to Thailand Mr. Thaksin. Good Luck to your health.

[mark131v]

  On 8/25/2023 at 2:20 AM, steven100 said:

     I hope they can save him

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<deleted>.......... tosser.   

[kimamey]

  On 8/25/2023 at 11:42 AM, herfiehandbag said:

Is this the penal system equivalent of "working from home"?

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Not yet but I'm sure that's the plan

[mark131v]

  On 8/25/2023 at 8:58 AM, Red Forever said:

Aha, another anti-Mr T medical expert.

So you're saying that the doctors are lying. Jeez.

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Yes, yes I am......

[mark131v]

  On 8/25/2023 at 11:44 AM, herfiehandbag said:

So, 15 minutes "notice to move";

an interesting take on a "rapid response team"!

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Let's hope the qrf don't need to stop off for a piss or food enroute....

[watchcat]

  On 8/25/2023 at 8:58 AM, Red Forever said:

Aha, another anti-Mr T medical expert.

So you're saying that the doctors are lying. Jeez.

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I think he's spot on.