Posts under Tag: Hospital
Thai Woman Rescued After Suicide Attempt on Pattaya Beach
Thai Woman Rescued After Suicide Attempt on Pattaya Beach

A Pattaya woman who was upset due to her Italian boyfriends’ imminent return to his country ran into the sea in an attempt to end her life. Pattaya, 2nd September 2010 [PDN] At 6.30 pm the Pattaya Police radio center was informed that a Thai woman had quarreled with her Italian boyfriend and ran into the sea to kill herself [...]

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Thailand: Teachers in 2 Provinces Charged with Sexual Abuse
Thailand: Teachers in 2 Provinces Charged with Sexual Abuse

Police are pressing child molestation charges against two teachers in Surat Thani province, while another two teachers in Nakhon Si Thammarat are being investigated for allegedly sexually abusing 21 female students. Police have charged the deputy director of Surat Thani’s Kanjanadit Wittayakom School with child sexual abuse after being alleged of luring a Grade 11 student and allowing a fellow [...]

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British man paralysed and stranded in Thailand
British man paralysed and stranded in Thailand

Young Tooting man paralysed and stranded in Thailand A salesman from Tooting is stranded in a Thai hospital after he was paralysed in a crash and did not have insurance. Tom Moss, 27, was left blind and unable to move from the neck down after his moped was hit by two cars and a lorry in Thailand. Now his family [...]

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Bangkok: Schoolboy killed in bus shooting
Bangkok: Schoolboy killed in bus shooting

An eight-year-old schoolboy was killed in a shooting at a bus by a number of technical school students on Ramkhamhaeng road on Wednesday morning, police reported. Police said the shooting took place about 7am. A group of youths dressed in technical school uniforms followed bus No 113 (Min Buri-Hua Lamphong) on motorcycles along Ramkhamhaeng road. At an intersection, the students [...]

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Thai Media Appeals to Help Trapped German Tourist
Thai Media Appeals to Help Trapped German Tourist

THE case of a German tourist trapped in his own body inside a Thai hospital is being related in Thailand’s media outlets to help him fly home. Now emerging from a coma yet still unable to speak, Matthias Stefan Koch, 38, has been confined to a bed at Songklanadarind Hospital in Hat Yai since October 25 last year when he [...]

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Thai People warned of flood related diseases
Thai People warned of flood related diseases

BANGKOK, 29 August 2010 (NNT) – The Ministry of Public Health has asked people to take extra precautions against flood-related diseases during the rainy season, and to keep themselves warm to prevent seasonal flu infection. Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit stated after the opening ceremony of a new building at Yasothon hospital that it is now rainy season in Thailand. [...]

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Video: 603-pound Thai woman leaves home after 3 years
Video: 603-pound Thai woman leaves home after 3 years

A 603-pound woman believed to be the heaviest in Thailand left her apartment for the first time in three years to get medical attention on Thursday with the help of Bangkok city hall and a forklift. Video courtesy of NDTV Share

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Security guard wounded in grenade attack at King Power mall in Bangkok
Security guard wounded in grenade attack at King Power mall in Bangkok

BANGKOK, Aug 27 — A security guard was seriously injured by a grenade explosion on Rangnam Road near the King Power duty-free shopping complex in central Bangkok, in the latest attack at the shopping centre. Jetsada Jankrajang, 24-year-old security guard, was sent to Rajavithi Hospital with shrapnel wounds on his head and body. The explosion occurred at 11pm Thursday night, [...]

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Tragic Balcony Fall Kills American Toddler in Pattaya
Tragic Balcony Fall Kills American Toddler in Pattaya

An American toddler has died after tragically falling from a 10th floor balcony at the View Talay 2 Condominiums in Jomtien on Tuesday. The 4-year-old boy fell from the balcony after reportedly playing on chair placed in close proximity to the railing. Pattaya, the 24th of August 2010: At approximately 6:30pm on Tuesday, Lieutenant Colonel Tarathep Toopanich (Pattaya Deputy Superintendent) [...]

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Thailand: Dengue Fever reaches critical point
Thailand: Dengue Fever reaches critical point

The outbreak of dengue fever in Thailand this year has reached a critical point, surging at an alarming rate, due to increase in the number of disease-bearing mosquitoes. According to the Ministry of Public Health, the number of patients infected between January and August this year has gone up by 83% year-on-year. 54,592 people have been treated for dengue fever, [...]

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