Raid conducted on illegal clinics
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Police yesterday raided four illegal clinics in Bangkok and arrested four suspects.
These clinics have been operating without a proper licence, and they have relied on impostor doctors to provide treatment to unknowing patients.
Moreover, they have supplied false diagnosis certificates to civil servants who want to take sick leave, and have even secretly sold pseudoephedrine.
Once widely used in cold medicine, pseudoephedrine is now a banned chemical because it is a precursor to methamphetamines. “We are cracking down on the illegal clinics. We have to prevent the distribution of pseudoephedrine,” Pasit Sakdanarong, an adviser to the public health minister, said yesterday.
“We have found that there are between 70 and 80 illegal clinics in Bangkok. We will close down all of them,” Pasit vowed.
Four suspects arrested yesterday were Jirasit Wijipaet, Kwanlada Taengthongkham, Atcharin Sudkangwarn and Ubon Pimpapak.
Police have already charged them with illegally running clinics, practising medicine without any licence, issuing false diagnosis certificates and selling banned medicine.
“We will investigate these cases further to nail all culprits,” Pol Colonel Kamchamnarn said in his capacity as the commander of National Police Office’s Children and Women Protection Sub-Division.
