Ministry to probe wrong HIV diagnosis in past 17 years

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Ministry of Public Health has appointed a fact-finding committee to prove into the wrong diagnosis of a child that she had HIV virus which as a consequence put her to live a miserable life for 17 years.

 

The committee was told to finish the probe in one month, so that the victim, Ms Sutthida Saengsumat, now married and has her own child, could be rehabilitated and remedied for the misery she had to endure since childhood.

 

Public Health Minister Piyasakon Sakonsatthayathorn said the ministry needed to set up the fact-finding committee to probe and find out how it happened and how to prevent such an error.

 

The probe will refer to the medical record of the victim, question witnesses and check the blood test process whether it was repeated for confirmation or not during the diagnosis.

 

The investigation will also find out if the error was related to malfunctioned medical devices or human error such as negligence of medical staffs.

 

According to an initial investigation, Sutthida is Roi-et native but in her medical record, she was reistered from the northern province of Lampang.

 

Meanwhile the minister also assigned a team to negotiate proper compensation for her.

 

Sutthida, 23, is now invited to be a presenter in the ministry’s campaign to stop discrimination against HIV patients.

 

At the same time, Thai Red Cross’s AIDS Research Centre director Pro Dr Praphan Phanuphak said medical staff will be questioned whether they did their duties properly or not.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/ministry-probe-wrong-hiv-diagnosis-past-17-years/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-06-06

"The Ministry of Public Health has appointed a fact-finding committee to prove into the wrong diagnosis of a child that she had HIV virus which as a consequence put her to live a miserable life for 17 years."

 

Who actually PAYS somebody to write English this poorly? Does the editor suck so bad too that they can't recognize it? The English in this country is getting worse, not better. 

 

"Public Health Minister Piyasakon Sakonsatthayathorn said the ministry needed to set up the fact-finding committee to probe and find out how it happened and how to prevent such an error."

 

Read: Put it all off so that people forget the story and nobody has to lose face. Everybody deserves a job here no matter how incompetent they are.

 

To let this go on for so long is pure incompetence.

'The investigation will also find out if the error was related to malfunctioned medical devices or human error such as negligence of medical staffs.' 

 

Honesty vs face? Only one possible outcome.