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Hospitals pay to cash in on accident fund

Several private hospitals are paying rescue workers to bring road accident victims to them in order to claim cash from a government fund, an expert and a rescue foundation say.

For each road accident victim admitted for treatment, the hospitals claim 15,000 baht from the auto accident victims compensation fund, Dr Paiboon Suriyawongpaisal, an expert in emergency medicine at Ramathibodi Hospital, said yesterday.

The fund is administered by the Insurance Department under the Commerce Ministry.

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  • geoffo

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    Discussion 1 : 09 Mar 2013 at 07.531

    Oh no -really well gosh, I never would have imagined such as thing going on in the City of Angels.

    Anyone who drives here knows these are cowboys with their dirty scruffy old vehicles complete with blacked out windows and police lights. These guys act like Pattaya Jet Ski mafia.

    Funny thing is , there are quality firms in Bangkok that make world class ambulances for export and for some use up country.

    Kudos to Dr Paiboon and Ms Sakorat for bringing this up but what is "the Plan "

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