House committee members plan to visit Thaksin at Police Hospital

By Thai Newsroom Reporters

MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE on Police Affairs plan to visit the “sickly” de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict at large Thaksin Shinawatra at Police Hospital to find out the truth about him next month.

House committee chair Chaichana Dejdecho said today (Dec.14) he and other committee members will visit Thaksin who has been staying in a tight-security, private ward at Police Hospital for nearly four months either in the first or second week of next month.

The House committee chair made his comment following today’s testimony at parliament by Bangkok Remand Prison chief Nasathee Thongpalard who, Chaichana said, has failed to shed light on special privileges granted to the de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict at large.

Whilst Thaksin’s medical treatment at Police Hospital is being paid for by the National Health Security Office, such privileges are not reportedly provided for other imprisoned convicts, Chaichana said.

“How could Thai society possibly get by amidst such social disparity and double standards?,” said the House committee chair.

Chaichana, concurrently a Democrat MP, quoted a senior doctor as testifying that Thaksin’s “illnesses” refer to Hepatitis B, a coronary artery disease and high blood pressure.

But the House committee chair cast doubts over Thaksin’s Hepatitis B disease since he has been earlier seen drinking wine and dancing.

The deposed prime minister has been accused by his critics and anti-Thaksin activists of getting “politically ill” by feigning it all to keep himself from being literally put behind bars.

The de facto Pheu Thai boss who returned from self-exile abroad and was rushed to Police Hospital after hours of staying at a nursing unit in the premises of the prison had been earlier convicted of misconduct perpetrated during his previous premiership and sentenced in absentia to an eight-year jail term which was curtailed by royal pardon to only one year with the probability of being released on parole as soon as between later this month and the upcoming February.

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Top and Front Page: House committee chair Chaichana Dejdecho with an image of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra being wheeled to undergo a CT Scan and MRI at Police Hospital in October inset. Photo: Matichon

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