Community Greek Man Stricken by Mysterious Illness Left Without Treatment as Funds Run Dry in Rayong

[Georgealbert]

 

Picture courtesy of Workpoint.

 

A 66-year-old Greek national suffering from an undiagnosed illness has been left bedridden and without medical care after exhausting hundreds of thousands of baht on unsuccessful treatment, leaving his Thai wife heartbroken and desperate.

 

Local charity group “Saphan Boon Ban Phe,” visited a modest home in Ban Nai Rai, Phe Subdistrict, Mueang Rayong District, where they met 48-year-old Mrs. Kotchakorn the wife and sole caregiver of Mr. Alex, who has been gravely ill since late February.

 

Mrs. Kotchakorn explained that her husband began deteriorating rapidly after collapsing earlier this year. Despite spending several hundred thousand baht on medical consultations and treatment, no doctor has been able to provide a diagnosis. With their savings depleted and no access to state healthcare benefits, the couple has been forced to abandon formal treatment. Mr. Alex now remains confined to bed, his condition worsening by the day, suffering from severe muscle weakness and unable to care for himself.

 

“He can’t walk, can’t move his arms properly and the doctors still can’t tell me what’s wrong,” Mrs. Kotchakorn said tearfully. “We’ve used everything we had. Now there’s no more money and no more options. I’ve brought him home to care for him here, I can only watch him fade away.”

 

Inside the home, she showed journalists intricately carved wooden furniture which she is now trying to sell in a last-ditch effort to raise funds for basic household needs and palliative care for her husband.

 

Mr. Alex, as a foreign national, does not qualify for the universal healthcare scheme. Without private insurance or consular support, the family has been left to fend for themselves.

 

This case has sparked public sympathy, with calls for assistance from government agencies, NGOs and the Greek embassy. Many are urging authorities to step in and provide emergency support for what has become not only a medical crisis but a humanitarian one.

 

As Mrs. Kotchakorn puts it: “I don’t want pity. I just want help, someone, anyone, to help him live with dignity for as long as he has left.”

 

 

  Adapted by Asean Now from Workpoint 2025-06-29

 

 

 

[ukrules]

They will let him die and not bat an eyelid. Nobody cares at all.

This is a warning to all who retire to Thailand....have tens of millions of Baht on hand or potentially end up like this poor guy.

[baansgr]

18 minutes ago, ukrules said:

They will let him die and not bat an eyelid. Nobody cares at all.

This is a warning to all who retire to Thailand....have tens of millions of Baht on hand or potentially end up like this poor guy.

I don't believe they will, Thais are a very caring nation regardless of nationality.