Thread: Private hospital fined Bt100,000 for refusing emergency treatment

A private hospital in Samut Prakan has been fined 100,000 baht by the Emergency Medicine Committee (EMC) for refusing to treat a critically injured patient, who later died after being rushed to another hospital.


The patient was a police officer who had been struck by a vehicle while he was performing his duty at a location not far from the private hospital, the name of which was withheld by the committee.


After having heard witness accounts and seen material evidence, the EMC concluded that the patient was a critical emergency case and, therefore, the hospital could not refuse to treat the patient and must provide emergency treatment to its fullest capability.


It was discovered that the hospital had twice rejected requests from an EMT unit, seeking to have the patient taken to the hospital, forcing them to find an alternative, where he was pronounced dead.


According to the EMC, this was also the second time that the hospital in question had refused to provide critical emergency treatment. In the other case, the patient was a Taiwanese tourist, who was hit by a car while crossing a road. He also later died from his injuries after being taken to another hospital.

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Nauseating how these creeps never get their hospitals named for incompetence, breach of care, or in this case plain out and out negligence.

Shitty people, shitty society, shitty country.

The double pricing in private Thai hospitals extorting farang even more is a fucking disgrace.

The EU and the UK should reciprocate and charge these fuckers double in their private health care regimes.

The patient was a police officer

Which is why it had a different outcome to the Taiwanese chap they let die.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

The EU and the UK should reciprocate and charge these fuckers double in their private health care regimes.

In the UK if a person is admitted to NHS hospital as an emergency they will be treated free of charge. That what I was told when I asked for the bill when my teelak swallowed a fish bone. Should be applicable in all country's.

No, I think the cop was refused and taken elsewhere where he eventually succumbed to his injuries.

Thai private hospitals are generally run and owned by Thai Chinese and therefore profit is the only imperative. Any semblance of decency and humanity is entirely peripheral and usually limited to PR exercises or accident.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

In the UK if a person is admitted to NHS hospital as an emergency they will be treated free of charge. That what I was told when I asked for the bill when my teelak swallowed a fish bone. Should be applicable in all country's.

Yes, but once the non-resident patient has been stabilised and no longer at risk of death they will have to pay for subsequent treatment which is usually charged at the NHS cost rate plus 50%. In my plan Thai patients would be charged an extra 100%.

In practice foreigners are indeed charged for non emergency treatment, elective treatments are charged in advance but non payments can often be hard to chase, and those of certain nationalities, (it would be considered ungentlemanly and racist to mention the specific countries in africa and the subcontinent that are the worst offenders) , will be long gone before the bill arrives.

NHS fees for foreigners here.

http://https://www.england.nhs.uk/pa...pfront-tariff/

Another hospital in SM Rama 2 turned an emergency away a couple of years ago, the excuse was the Dr was in the toilet! They sent the woman, who had acid poured down her throat by hubby to another one down the road- passing by the best hospital 600 yards away- in a taxi. By the time she got there it was too late. First hospital was advertising 24 hr emergency but not always providing it.

Bastards

It takes some balls to turn away a Thai cop that is dying.

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Apologies, Emergency treatment so can't comment.