Reds storm hospital

[TroyinEwa/Perv]

(Putting on my new hat while drinking my beer)

 

Fair enough.

[Mekong]

amazing...someone actually takes the time to find the names of n korean newspapers...you should apply at the nation, they sure need subs like you...

i thought it was very clear by now that i'm the board's resident twat, so no need to point out the totally obvious...

 

Touche

 

Good Comeback CW

[Flashermac]

Supreme Patriarch now in Siriraj

 

4:59pm

 

 

The Supreme Patriarch has been removed from Chulalongkorn Hospital to Siriraj Hospital as ordered by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Srindhorn, reports said.

 

The Princess visited the ailing head of the order of Buddhist monks at Chulalongkorn Hospital this afternoon, two days after red-shirt anti-government protesters stormed the hospital to search for armed soldiers they believed were hiding inside.

 

The Supreme Patriarch was only patient remaining at the hospital.

 

The Princess directed the hospital’s director Adisorn Phatthradulaya to remove the Supreme Patriarch to Siriraj Hospital for safety reason.

 

 

Wonder if the reds checked him for weapons.

 

 

 

[cavanami]

Seems like there are/should be certain things/actions off limits; 1) Royal Family, 2) Wats, 3) hospitals...etc

 

 

[Wallenda]

Seems like there are/should be certain things/actions off limits; 1) Royal Family, 2) Wats, 3) hospitals...etc

 

 

To be fair, I'm pretty sure these nitwits had no idea a member of the royals was inside. Pretty sure they did realize it was a hospital though.

 

[waerth]

Flash.......I think Mekong posted this same story just a few posts ago. Maybe 10 back???

 

KS.....just my opinion.....but this is becoming as bad as the US Presidential crap that happened before with threads all over the place. A million threads about the same thing. Any way to combine them into one and just have it run it's course there?

This is a THAI board and this is THAI news.

 

If the posts were on USA360 then you would have a point!

 

(copyright Mekong)

[Flashermac]

Bangkok Post

2 May 2010

 

 

Even the Japanese invaders respected Chula

 

 

Opinion by Veera Prateepchaikul

 

 

 

Starting out as a self-proclaimed champion for democracy and against double-standard practices since launching their protest just a few months ago, the red shirt movement has increasingly shown its true colours as a big bully which will stop at nothing, even if that means putting the lives of the weak and the sick in grave danger.

 

The storming of Chulalongkorn Hospital on Thursday by more than 100 red shirt guards under the leadership of Payap Panket, a core leader of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), in a frantic search for suspected army snipers was the most deplorable and brazen act by the movement so far. It may well be the last straw in the tolerance of most of the public towards the red shirt protesters.

 

The outrageous incident frightened medical staff and patients alike, prompting the hospital's management to evacuate hundreds of patients to safer hospitals. Acceptance of out-patients was suspended earlier after the protesters blocked all the hospital's entrances and exits.

 

Pictures in the press showing patients being wheeled hurriedly out of the hospital - many seen with IV drips bandaged to their arms while some were seen with respirators - are worth more than a million words. Unfortunately though, many of these patients were too weak to utter a complaint or to ask why they had to be evacuated.

 

One 70-year-old cancer patient was reported to have lapsed into a coma during the evacuation but, luckily, he recovered after being given resuscitation. About 100 sick children were moved out of their sterile wards to another building farther away from the red shirts' protest site on Ratchadamri Road.

 

[color:red]Somrat Charulaksananan, deputy director of Chulalongkorn Hospital, described the incident as the worst in the hospital's 96 years of operations. He said the hospital's sanctity as a sanctuary for the sick had never been breached so badly before, even during World War II when Thailand was occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army.[/color]

 

[color:red]"When the Japanese army were told that this was a Thai Red Cross hospital, they respected us and stayed away," said Professor Dr Somrat.

 

So even the Japanese invaders showed respect for the hospital despite their infamous reputation for brutality and inhuman treatment of people under their occupation.[/color]

 

[color:blue]In other words, the Japanese were better and more humane than the red shirt guards and, in particularl, Mr Payap, who led the hospital raid.[/color]

 

In a damage-control exercise, Weng Tojirakarn, a UDD core leader, offered an apology to the hospital, claiming the raid was carried out by Mr Payap without the consent of the other core leaders.

 

He promised that the incident would not be repeated and agreed to hold talks with the hospital management about the lifting of the blockade to allow ambulances to get in and out of the hospital.

 

As a goodwill gesture, the blockade was lifted.

 

But hours later, the blockade was restored reportedly on the orders of Maj-Gen Khattiya Sawasdipol, aka Seh Daeng, a rogue soldier commanding the red shirt guards, who demanded that the blockade was necessary to prevent troops from sneaking into the hospital.

 

With the number of protesters at their main encampment at Ratchaprasong intersection steadily dwindling and with the arrival of reinforcements from the provinces being blocked or discouraged by government forces, the red shirt leaders appear to be in a state of paranoia that their month-long protest may soon be broken up by security forces. The hospital raid was partly prompted by a core leader's paranoid belief that army snipers might be hiding inside.

 

Even if the protesters have decided to lift the blockade at the hospital, the damage caused to their movement's reputation by the raid is beyond repair. The demand by members of the public to take tough action to disperse the protesters is getting louder and louder as their patience with them and the government alike is quickly running out.

 

Last but not least, I hope that Mr Payap will not get sick and have to be admitted to hospital for treatment as his unprecedented and foolhardy adventurism on Thursday will be imprinted in our memory, especially the medical community, for years to come. :evil:

 

 

 

Rink

[Flashermac]

Bangkok Post

3 Apr 2010

 

 

Hospital staff tell of red shirt fears

 

 

Doctors and medical staff have spoken of their distress and fear after red shirt protesters raided Chulalongkorn Hospital last week.

 

The red shirts' raid on Thursday forced the evacuation of more than 100 patients from the hospital and triggered public condemnation. Medical staff told a forum yesterday organised by the Thai Journalists Association that they were now living in fear.

 

The protesters agreed yesterday to allow access to the hospital's emergency unit in the face of growing public criticism.

 

Thammasak Thawitsri, an anaesthesiologist at the hospital, said staff were worried about their safety.

 

"We didn't know what to do, the hospital looks like a desolate place. I cannot hold back my tears," Dr Thammasak said. Supaporn Sritangsirikul, a C7 nurse, said staff felt unsafe.

 

Before they could enter the hospital, they had to pass through a checkpoint manned by red shirt protesters who demanded bag searches.

 

At one point the nurses heard continued gunshots and crouched in fear, she said. Then, a patient beeped for help and the nurses had to crawl into the patient's room to attend to him.

 

"Safety is the basic right of people," Mrs Supaporn said.

 

"If medical professionals feel unsafe, they will lose concentration and cannot deliver their services.

 

"We maintain our neutrality. We treat everyone, no matter who they are."

 

Chulalongkorn Hospital deputy director Somrat Jarulaksananant said the hospital wanted to appeal to the red shirt demonstrators to keep away from the complex and to back away from areas around the King Rama VI statue near the Sala Daeng intersection where they have set up camp.

 

The protesters should allow reasonable distance between themselves and the hospital so hospital staff could deliver medical services effectively, he said.

 

Dr Somrat defended the hospital's decision to move patients to other hospitals following Thursday's raid.

 

He said it was not an overreaction. The evacuation was carried out for the safety of patients.

 

The hospital treats from 3,000 to 4,000 patients a day. The number has fallen by 20% since the red shirts occupied the area in front of the hospital last month, Dr Somrat said.

 

Hospital staff and doctors will gather today in front of the hospital's administration building to demand a safe environment to perform their duties.

 

A total of 140 patients have been evacuated to other hospitals - 113 to hospitals in Bangkok and 27 in 13 other provinces. Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanavisit said yesterday the hospital had made the right decision to evacuate some of its patients.

 

The minister also denied an accusation by the red shirts that the government had closed part of the hospital complex in an attempt to discredit the protesters.

 

 

Rink

[Flashermac]

Seems like there are/should be certain things/actions off limits; 1) Royal Family' date=' 2) Wats, 3) hospitals...etc

 

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To be fair, I'm pretty sure these nitwits had no idea a member of the royals was inside. Pretty sure they did realize it was a hospital though.

 

 

What royal was inside?

 

 

 

[Wallenda]

To be fair, I'm pretty sure these nitwits had no idea a member of the royals was inside. Pretty sure they did realize it was a hospital though.

 

What royal was inside?

 

Oops, did I miunderstand? ...

 

The Supreme Patriarch has been removed from Chulalongkorn Hospital to Siriraj Hospital as ordered by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Srindhorn, reports said.