Hospital boss faces drugs charge
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The Department of Special Investigation will charge the director of Siriwej Lamphun Hospital with ordering 1.6 million pseudoephedrine pills in the name of the hospital allegedly for resale to an illicit drug-making operation.
Tharit Pengdit, director-general of the DSI, said Assoc Professor Chote Nisung procured the controlled medicine 37 times from Asian Pharmaceutical but the cold pills had never been used for treating patients at his hospital.
The DSI believes Chote diverted the substance, which is a main precursor of methamphetamine, to elements of a yaba supply chain.
