14th floor back again

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) deserves a praise for launching a probe into another case of a wealthy recipient of privileged treatment who spent a month in a special patient room on the 14th floor of Police General Hospital (PGH).

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NHRC last month sent a letter to the medical chief officer of Police Hospital General asking for clarification about the medical treatment and diagnosis provided to Vonnarat Tangkaravakoon, a defendant in an embezzlement scandal at Stark. He stayed for 29 days in May last year.

This independent body last year launched similar probe into the case of former PM Thaksin Shinawatra who served an entire jail term at a private ward on the 14th floor. In his case, the commissioners found irregularities and recommended the Office of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) investigate malfeasance.