Picture courtesy: Thai Rath

 

THAILAND - On September 8, 2024, it was reported that Major General Dr. Reienthong Nanna, Director of Mongkutwattana Hospital, posted on his Facebook page, stating:

 

"I plan to repurpose the 'public phone booths' that were donated for COVID-19 screening during the 2020-2022 pandemic. These booths are no longer in use and would otherwise become waste.

 

I will turn them into an innovation called 'Smoke Rooms' for those who break the no-smoking rule at Mongkutwattana Hospital. Smokers can smoke as much as they want inside these rooms, but the smoke will remain contained. It won’t disturb others or harm public health, only the smoker's health, reported Thai Rath.

 

The cigarette smoke will continuously circulate inside the 'Smoke Room' until it's fully consumed. The door, controlled by an automatic smoke sensor, will unlock only after the smoke has cleared, allowing the smoker to exit.

This ensures that smokers inhale 100% of their own cigarette smoke, maximizing the experience of each cigarette they smoke. Not a single bit of smoke will escape to disturb or harm anyone else.

 

While this 'Smoke Room' innovation may seem harsh, it ensures no one smokes inside Mongkutwattana Hospital. If someone avoids our hospital because of this strict anti-smoking measure, I would be more than happy.

 

Dr. Reienthong also mentioned he would name this 'Smoke Room' the 'Hitler Room.' (ห้องฮิตเลอร์)

 

He warned that anyone caught smoking selfishly in the hospital, harming others, will face public shaming by hospital volunteers and 'Black Hooded' individuals. He emphasized that this is not a joke and that they are serious.

 

Major General Dr. Reienthong Nanna, Director of Mongkutwattana Hospital—a hospital committed to civility, safety, being smoke-free, and free from troublemakers

—September 8, 2024, at 10:35 AM.

 

Note: The 'Smoke Room' or 'Hitler Room' will be showcased to the public once it is ready, as a deterrent for non-smokers."

 

-- 2024-09-09
 

 

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3 minutes ago, webfact said:

Smokers can smoke as much as they want inside these rooms, but the smoke will remain contained

Please make that all smokers.

Tobacco, e-cigarettes and weed.

Every time I think they can't come up with any more ridiculous/stupid ideas, along comes a new winner.

10 minutes ago, webfact said:

Picture courtesy: Thai Rath

 

THAILAND - On September 8, 2024, it was reported that Major General Dr. Reienthong Nanna, Director of Mongkutwattana Hospital, posted on his Facebook page, stating:

 

"I plan to repurpose the 'public phone booths' that were donated for COVID-19 screening during the 2020-2022 pandemic. These booths are no longer in use and would otherwise become waste.

 

I will turn them into an innovation called 'Smoke Rooms' for those who break the no-smoking rule at Mongkutwattana Hospital. Smokers can smoke as much as they want inside these rooms, but the smoke will remain contained. It won’t disturb others or harm public health, only the smoker's health, reported Thai Rath.

 

The cigarette smoke will continuously circulate inside the 'Smoke Room' until it's fully consumed. The door, controlled by an automatic smoke sensor, will unlock only after the smoke has cleared, allowing the smoker to exit.

This ensures that smokers inhale 100% of their own cigarette smoke, maximizing the experience of each cigarette they smoke. Not a single bit of smoke will escape to disturb or harm anyone else.

 

While this 'Smoke Room' innovation may seem harsh, it ensures no one smokes inside Mongkutwattana Hospital. If someone avoids our hospital because of this strict anti-smoking measure, I would be more than happy.

 

Dr. Reienthong also mentioned he would name this 'Smoke Room' the 'Hitler Room.' He warned that anyone caught smoking selfishly in the hospital, harming others, will face public shaming by hospital volunteers and 'Black Hooded' individuals. He emphasized that this is not a joke and that they are serious.

 

Major General Dr. Reienthong Nanna, Director of Mongkutwattana Hospital—a hospital committed to civility, safety, being smoke-free, and free from troublemakers

—September 8, 2024, at 10:35 AM.

 

Note: The 'Smoke Room' or 'Hitler Room' will be showcased to the public once it is ready, as a deterrent for non-smokers."

 

-- 2024-09-09
 

 

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This Major General, is off his head. Is he the one who slapped a young teen and made him take off his clothes in the street, and threw him out. 

It will be good for weed smokers. 

Back on cold rainy nights we would be having a car bong session and nicknamed it a “compression session”. Everyone claimed to get higher.

They have similar rooms at numerous airports , smoking rooms 

Good idea let them inhale all the toxins.

43 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

Please make that all smokers.

Tobacco, e-cigarettes and weed.

 

I don't need a special room to smoke my evil weed.

I simply book a room at a Samui resort and smoke the place up, just to annoy the fickle locals. 😎

 

Okay! Only this is missing

45 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

Every time I think they can't come up with any more ridiculous/stupid ideas, along comes a new winner.

Use such silly "gas" comparison in Germany and they would all jump on you.

8 minutes ago, Bert got kinky said:

 

I don't need a special room to smoke my evil weed.

I simply book a room at a Samui resort and smoke the place up, just to annoy the fickle locals. 😎

 

 Give us the address, I fancy some of that.

 

I hope the owner isn't some decrepit old moron.

59 minutes ago, webfact said:

I will turn them into an innovation called 'Smoke Rooms' for those who break the no-smoking rule at Mongkutwattana Hospital. Smokers can smoke as much as they want inside these rooms, but the smoke will remain contained. It won’t disturb others or harm public health, only the smoker's health, reported Thai Rath.

This is what we had in airport lounges and then the <deleted> took them away.

I assume he will pick his battles, because he doesn't look like someone who could force more than a small child or and elderly person to do what he says. I am sure one punch from someone my size would dislocated his head from his shoulders.

I wonder if the Major General doctor has any idea of, or even remembers the Hippocratic Oath, or even took that Oath?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath

 

I swear by Apollo Healer, by Asclepius, by Hygieia, by Panacea, and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture.

To hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers, and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture; to impart precept, oral instruction, and all other instruction to my own sons, the sons of my teacher, and to indentured pupils who have taken the Healer's oath, but to nobody else.

I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgment, and I will do no harm or injustice to them.[6] Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. But I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art. I will not use the knife, not even, verily, on sufferers from stone, but I will give place to such as are craftsmen therein.

Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.

Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain for ever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I break it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.[5]

Great idea, these smoke rooms/booths should be implemented everywhere, coin operated on every street corner 

It's interesting how times have changed.

When I was young everybody was smoking. And we made jokes about gay guys.

Now if you are gay or any other of that alphabet soup then you are preferred in those progressive organizations and companies.

And if anybody smokes, he's the devil.

 

Can we please take it easy. Live and let live and all that? 

8 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

It's interesting how times have changed.

When I was young everybody was smoking. And we made jokes about gay guys.

Now if you are gay or any other of that alphabet soup then you are preferred in those progressive organizations and companies.

And if anybody smokes, he's the devil.

 

Can we please take it easy. Live and let live and all that? 

Smoking is toxic to others. 

2 minutes ago, maesariang said:

Smoking is toxic to others. 

 

Yup, disgusting habit that effects other people, not just the smoker. Never forget eating at a 99 restaurant bar one day in the USA and a women sitting next to me was talking to her friend, while holding her cigarette over her shoulder in my face at the bar, so she wouldn't have smoke in her face or her friends. I started making comments about how disgusting smokers are, then suggested maybe I should start farting in her face, she then gave me a dirty look before putting out her cancer stick. 

They should put him in it first for a few hours and than see what he will say again.. He surely will increase the health costs in Thailand or even worse if people die.. He is a killer and shoudl be removed from his post. He should make such a comment in Europe...

1 minute ago, ikke1959 said:

They should put him in it first for a few hours and than see what he will say again.. He surely will increase the health costs in Thailand or even worse if people die.. He is a killer and shoudl be removed from his post. He should make such a comment in Europe...

 

I believe this is the same hospital and guy from past articles, he is an xenophobic prick who very much so has a Hitler attitude about him.

12 minutes ago, maesariang said:

Smoking is toxic to others. 

Yes, and so are exhaust gasses from vehicles, industry, etc.

And lots of food is bad. And, and and.

 

Personally, I am fine with smoking people as long as they don't blow the smoke right in my face. And normally people don't do that.

19 minutes ago, maesariang said:

Smoking is toxic to others. 

 

So is living outside your incubator, stay there and never leave  it, have fun.

50 minutes ago, billd766 said:

I wonder if the Major General doctor has any idea of, or even remembers the Hippocratic Oath, or even took that Oath?

 

Why would an Asian doctor take an oath referring to Greek mythological characters?

 

 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Dr. Reienthong also mentioned he would name this 'Smoke Room' the 'Hitler Room.' (ห้องฮิตเลอร์)

 

They're at it again!

 

Fine, as long as they also make me a bath full of coffee. 

 

 

I think he bought his teapot at JCP.

 

Bangkok hospital’s Nazi ‘gas chambers’ plan sparks fury
by Bob Scott

 

Director of Mongkutwattana Hospital, Rienthong Nanna. Picture: ThaiPost

The director of Mongkutwattana Hospital in Bangkok sparked a storm of controversy with a plan to punish smokers who defy his anti-smoking ban, drawing comparisons to Nazi Germany’s grim practices.

 

Rienthong Nanna, the director of the private hospital located in the Laksi district, declared on Facebook that he would confine defiant smokers in ‘gas chambers’ made from old telephone booths until they inhale 100% of their cigarette smoke.

 

Rienthong detailed that these telephone booths, donated for Covid-19 screening between 2020 and 2022, will now serve as a method to enforce the smoking ban within the hospital premises. The initiative aims to contain the smoke, preventing it from affecting other patients and visitors while ensuring smokers fully absorb their cigarette emissions.

 

“In the innovative gas chambers, those who defy the smoking ban at Mongkutwattana Hospital can fully inhale the smoke from their cigarettes. The smoke will not be released to the outside and annoy or harm the public but will ruin the health of the smokers themselves.”

The booths will feature lock sensors that detect smoke. Once the smoke dissipates, the doors will unlock automatically, allowing the smokers to exit. Rienthong expressed his frustration with selfish smokers, noting that this method would replace previous physical confrontations.

 

Rienthong is not a stranger to controversy.

 

This announcement comes after a recent incident where Rienthong made headlines for slapping and stripping a teenager who smoked on hospital grounds. The director defended his actions, citing the need to protect other visitors and patients from second-hand smoke, which could travel through the hospital’s ventilation system.

 

The altercation led to legal action against the Bangkok hospital director. Complicating matters, it was later revealed that the teenager was allegedly in possession of heroin during the visit to the hospital, reported Bangkok Post.

 

In a related incident, a disturbing incident unfolded at Mongkutwattana Hospital yesterday, May 13, where the director, Doctor Rianthong Nanna, is accused of physically assaulting a 14 year old boy and ordering him to strip naked as punishment for smoking in the hospital’s restroom.

 

Full story: The Thaiger 

-- 2024-09-09

 

 

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1 minute ago, impulse said:

 

Why would an Asian doctor take an oath referring to Greek mythological characters?

 

 

Why would any doctor ?    Anyway  the oath doesn't seem to have stopped them going on strike in the UK . or reducing the number of appintments they accept , both of which are hardly beneficial to patients.    But they are seem to be happy now that hey have had a wage increase , albeit at the expense of pensioners who have lost their winter fuel allowance, I guess hypothermia doesn't count 

The good Major General must have been listening to the lessons on Concentration Camps during his days in the military to come up with that gem of an idea.

24 minutes ago, lordgrinz said:

 

I believe this is the same hospital and guy from past articles, he is an xenophobic prick who very much so has a Hitler attitude about him.

sounds like he has other issues, forcing teenage boys to strip is hardly a traditional punishment for breaking a no smoking rule.  In my not so humble opinion

3 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

Why would any doctor ?    Anyway  the oath doesn't seem to have stopped them going on strike in the UK . or reducing the number of appintments they accept , both of which are hardly beneficial to patients.    But they are seem to be happy now that hey have had a wage increase , albeit at the expense of pensioners who have lost their winter fuel allowance, I guess hypothermia doesn't count 

 

Not any better back in the USA, try getting ANY appointment in several months, God forbid you need a specialist.