Medical Council to meet Thursday to consider Dhammakaya’s request for specialists



BANGKOK: -- The Medical Council will call a special meeting on Thursday to consider a request of Phra Dhammachayo’s personal physician for specialists to be sent to the temple to examine the conditions of the embattled abbot.

Medical Council president Dr Somsak Lolekha said Wednesday that if the council accepts the request, specialists would be sent to the temple to examine Phra Dhammachayo to determine whether he is sick or suffer from any ailments as stated in the doctor’s certificate.

Dr Somsak warned that Phra Dhammachayo’s physician might have his medical license suspended or revoked if it was discovered that the abbot does not from any ailments as stated in the certificate.

The physician, Dr Chuchai Pornpattanaphan, he was ready to cooperate with the specialists from the Medical Council and to provide them with all the conveniences which may be needed.

Meanwhile Phra Maha Nopporn Punyachayo, assistant director of the communications office of Wat Dhammakaya, insisted that the embattled abbot is still in the temple.

He claimed that the temple had received letters from Buddhist organizations in Japan and South Korea urging Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha to hold off legal actions against the embattled monk.

In the meantime, a backhoe which was put at an entrance of the temple as a barricade has already been moved out after the prime minister promised not to use violence against Dhammachayo.

However, barbed wire fence has been reinforced at Gate 5.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/165644


-- Thai PBS 2016-06-02

More smoke and mirrors.

Another trick to try to covince people he is sick and not just hiding from justice.

If Chalerm was still around....this is what he would do:

he would disguise himself as a medical specialist complete with surgical mask, stethoscope and clipboard, then go to the temple with the other specialists and, just when they are about to take the abbot's temperature, lying on his stomach, Chalerm would jump out, take the mask off and arrest the man.

That's what he would do...I do miss my Chalerm.

Phra Dhammachayo’s physician might have his medical license suspended or revoked if it was discovered that the abbot does not from any ailments as stated in the certificate.

Why?

I thought it was a low-level hospital administrator that issued the medical certificate, not Dhammachayo’s physician. And I don't believe the administrator is a doctor either. So such a statement may be more posturing in an effort to intimidate Dhammachayo - an odd strategy form a law enforcement perspective.

Cue the circus music.