The Medical Council has had to postpone its review of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s treatment at the Police General Hospital, scheduled on April 10, due to the late arrival of additional documentation from the Corrections Department’s hospital and the Police General Hospital, on March 31 and April 1 respectively.
In a statement, released yesterday, the Medical Council said that the large quantity of documents requires additional time to study, making it impossible to conclude its findings within the April 10th deadline.
The probe focuses on the ethical conduct of doctors responsible for the treatment of Thaksin at the Police General Hospital.
Thaksin’s six-month stay in the hospital, immediately following his arrival in Thailand on August 22, 2023, from his self-imposed exile, has been the subject of widespread suspicion that he might have feigned life-threatening illnesses, in collaboration with doctors at the two hospitals, to avoid serving his eight-year prison sentence in an actual prison cell.
The sentence was ultimately reduced to one year, by royal commutation, and he ended up not spending a single day behind bars.
