Prawit taking medicine but should attend Cabinet meeting, says his adviser

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Prawit taking medicine but should attend Cabinet meeting, says his adviser

By Wasamon Audjarint
The Nation

 

Panitan Wattanayagorn, Prawit’s adviser on security affairs

 

BANGKOK: -- An adviser to Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan has said that the 71-year-old retired general will likely attend the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, despite rumors of him being unwell.

 

“He’s doing fine,” Panitan Wattanayagorn, Prawit’s adviser on security affairs, told The Nation on Monday night.

 

“He takes some medications, which is normal for people of his age. Still, he maintains working hard.”

 

Prawit should attend the weekly meeting on Tuesday, Panitan said, adding: “Unless there is any change, which should be updated afterwards.”

 

Prawit was briefed about the bombing incident at Phramongkutklao Hospital on Monday and had ordered tighter security to be implemented at several public places, the adviser said.

 

According to the initial investigation, the bombing was caused by explosives being placed inside a vase that was placed in a room named “Wongsuwan” – apparently in honour to the deputy PM.

 

But Panitan said that he would not jump to the conclusion that the bombing was meant to relate with Prawit. 

 

“It could be where security cameras didn’t cover. Maybe it was not crowded by the time perpetrator decided to put explosives in the case,” he said. 

 

“There are many possibilities and we won’t be swayed by any, unless with sufficient evidence.

 

“This includes that we won’t judge yet whether the bombing is related to other incidents or to the three-year anniversary [of the junta on Monday].”

 

While the bombing of a hospital sounds new to Thailand, Panitan said, sabotage in hospitals has happened before. 

 

In 2000, there was a hostage siege in Ratchaburi hospitals that ended with nine rebels being killed. 

 

Last year, Cho-Airong Hospital in deep-South Narathiwat was seized by insurgents and used as a shield to attack a nearby paramilitary camp.

 

“While hospitals are internationally recognised as peaceful areas, sabotage in such places is seen from time to time,” he said.

 

“Still, a bombing of this scale in Phramongkutklao is rather new in Thailand. It’s possible that the perpetrators might want to stir up situations by creating a scene at the said hospital.”

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30316028

 

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[worgeordie]

"Still, he maintains working hard.” counting money ?

regards Worgeordie

[Thailand]

So brave. Another medal coming up.

[colinneil]

Must be back breaking work counting large piles of money.

[Deez]

He is fine after he takes his "ear medicine"

[Hayduke]

4 hours ago, colinneil said:

Must be back breaking work counting large piles of money.

Only little people and amateurs count money…..well-fed professionals have their servants weigh it.

[klauskunkel]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Prawit taking medicine but should attend Cabinet meeting, says his adviser

advisor sounds like a mom: Take your medicine and then go back to school, I will give you a note for gym class

Edited May 23, 2017 by klauskunkel

[Happyman58]

Guess he has to show sometimes He gets paid 100,000 baht attendance fees for each meeting My god i think i just getting so sick of this corruption Never stops 

[fish monger]

I thought he took a trip to the US a few weeks back because he was not well.... The fact that we now know that he's on meds speaks volumes. Why would he be if he's doing well...?

[soalbundy]

The medicine is to shrink his brain, it has grown so large that it is being compressed by his skull giving him bad headaches

[mtls2005]

The local press is reporting that:

 

Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon is in a hospital in Europe and is being treated for Meniere's disease, according to a source close to him.

 

 

Not sure flying was the best thing, but one assumes he has access to bestest health care.