Four agencies to join the probe against ThaiHealth



BANGKOK: -- Four organizations have been asked to investigate the spending of Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) by the Justice Ministry’s anti-corruption centre.

The four approached by the centre are the National Anti-Corruption Commission, the Office of the Auditor-General, the Government Sector’s Anti-Corruption Office and the panel tasked with monitoring budgetary spendings of the government sector.

The five agencies are due to meet next week to follow up the findings of the panel responsible for monitoring budgetary spending of the government sector which faulted ThaiHealth of misusing its budget for projects unrelated to health promotion.

Justice Minister Paibul Koomchaya said Thursday that the five agencies would what issues of what projects which should be probed. He said ThaiHealth had insisted that its spending were transparent and, hence, the probe should be fair.

He made clear that if some of the projects were considered to be not related to health promotion it didn’t mean that the entire organization should be dissolved but only the unrelated projects would have to be axed.

ThaiHealth manager Krisada Ruang-areerat, meanwhile, appealed in his Facebook page to his staff not to oppose the probe into the organization.

Insisting on the organisastion’s transparency, he cautioned that systematic change in ThaiHealth would render the organization useless. Several governmental agencies, he said, did not understand the working concept and the scope of health promotion.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/four-agencies-to-join-the-probe-against-thaihealth


-- Thai PBS 2015-10-15

I am sure that some Thai Health senior staff have very healthy bank accounts. Does that count as health promotion?

Four agencies !, all they need is one good forensic accountant,

they would soon find where the money went and who got it.

regards Worgeordie

Somebody said on here yesterday that there is no mystery where the money was allocated. It was given to groups that were campaigning against industrial projects that were dangerous to health.

Big projects, big profits, so the Big Men gave their "pitbull" the nod.

Usual story, nothing new or revelatory really.

Apart from four agencies becoming five, why do they need that many? For that matter, why do they all exist? One anti-corruption agency plus the Auditor General's office should be enough.

Somebody said on here yesterday that there is no mystery where the money was allocated. It was given to groups that were campaigning against industrial projects that were dangerous to health.

Big projects, big profits, so the Big Men gave their "pitbull" the nod.

Usual story, nothing new or revelatory really.

The health care system has been much in the news. I think the current government really wants to seriously "modify" it. They seem to want to keep it front and center in the media. Nothing like a 4 pronged attack through the back door goodness knows what they will "find"

I am sure that some Thai Health senior staff have very healthy bank accounts. Does that count as health promotion?

I think it's actually wealth promotion.