Ministry to provide full assistance to bring sick female graduate back from South Korea

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Ministry to provide full assistance to bring sick female graduate back from South Korea

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Foreign Ministry today assured that it will help to bring the Thai female graduate from a South Korean hospital back for treatment in Thailand.

 

The assurance was given by the ministry’s spokesman Ms Busadee Santipitak after the graduate’s aunt Somporn Kuasuwan sought help from Kalasin provincial governor to help coordinate with the Ministry to bring her niece Ms Rapeeporn Nasa-an back to Thailand for treatment, reasoning the high hospital bills of 200,000 baht a day.

 

According to the aunt, her niece, who re­cently grad­u­ated with a bach­e­lor’s de­gree from the Univer­sity of the Thai Cham­ber of Com­merce, went on a trip to South Korea with three friends last Mon­day and was sup­posed to re­turn home on Fri­day. But on Thurs­day, she was con­tacted by friends say­ing her niece had suf­fered from shock which re­sulted in los­ing con­scious­ness and be­ing rushed to hos­pi­tal.

 

As her niece re­mained un­con­scious in hospital, her friends had to re­turn home, she said.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/ministry-provide-full-assistance-bring-sick-female-graduate-back-south-korea/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-03-27

[elgordo38]

Bring her home. Another great human interest story with no replies. Guess its still nap time. 

[Somtamnication]

Say what you want about Thailand, the UK will never fork out money to send someone home.

[AhFarangJa]

Only if you can get someone in the UK to agree to repay the costs.....

[brucec64]

And yet they can't find the funds to pay the medical bills for the Erawan bombing victims.

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Family appeals for help to bring back ill student from South Korea
By Chompit Pinmuang
The Nation

 

Consular Department

 

BANGKOK: -- Relatives of 25-year-old female university graduate who is in a coma in a South Korean hospital after suffering a medical emergency, submitted a petition to Kalasin’s Dhamrongtham Centre on Monday, to get help to bring her back to Thailand for treatment.

 

Following the mysterious illness, Rapeeporn Nasaan, who recently graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, remains unconscious and in critical condition at a South Korean hospital.

 

Kalasin governor Natthaphat Suwanprateep has coordinated with the Foreign Affairs Ministry’s Consulate Department to provide initial aid, while locals in Kalasin were trying to raise funds to pay for her return trip. 

 

Rapeeporn’s grandfather Thongon Nongsoda, who is former kamnan of Tambon Nong Waeng in Somdet district, led 10 other relatives to submit the petition and attached documents for deputy provincial governor Mongkol Odthon at the Kalasin Dhamrongntham Centre on Monday.

 

Thongon said they wanted the centre to contact authorities to help bring Rapeeporn back, as well as provide assistance money to cover her medical bills in South Korea, which were as high as Bt200,000 a day. 

 

Mongkol said the province had initially contacted the South Korean Consulate in Thailand for help and was told that she remained in a critical condition and was placed under close surveillance. He said that anyone wishing to make a donation to help Rapeeporn could contact any Dhamrongtham Centre in their district.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30310473

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-03-28

[scorecard]

Some points:

 

1. If the Thai government provide support to bring her home (and it's reported she's in ICU so that possibly means a full medical evacuation) then they must give the same support to any Thai national who needs such support to return to Thailand. Have they said free? 

 

2.  Did she personally arrange any medical insurance before he went to S. Korea?.

 

3. I get the feeling she's on some type of exchange program, if true, does her Thai university or the exchange university in S. Korea have a compulsory requirement that such students must have medical insurance.

 

My Uni here in Bangkok does have such a policy and there are Thai students on exchange in S. Korea, Germany and other countries. Most of the German universities insist on seeing a medical insurance policy before they give final approval for off-shore students to come to Germany.  Opposite way around, the German students who come here must have medical insurance or their home uni. in Germany won't approve their exchange program. 

[kannot]

14 hours ago, brucec64 said:

And yet they can't find the funds to pay the medical bills for the Erawan bombing victims.

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and  tell foreigners  to get insurance  for sickness abroad

[atyclb]

very intriguing is what can cause a young healthy female to go into shock and require an icu ?????????????????

[cnx355]

What about travel insurance paid by the parents before the trip.  Really not expensive in Thailand.  Even low cost airline offer them at low price....