Chumpol recovering after collapsing at meeting

Chumpol, who is also the tourism and sports minister, had to undergo a coronary angioplasty after collapsing on Monday during a meeting on Thailand’s bid to host the World Expo 2020.
Banharn, chief adviser to Chumpol as the Chart Thai Pattana Party leader, said Chumpol will be kept under close medical supervision as doctors are concerned about possible complications, especially to his kidneys, from pulmonary oedema, or fluid accumulation in his lungs, during the time he was unconscious. His heart condition is not worrying now.
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said she would to look into setting up a health clinic at Government House.
Chart Thai Pattana’s chief adviser Sanan Kachornprasart, who has been at Siriraj Hospital for almost a month after suffering a severe emphysema attack, is still in stable condition, said Udom Kachintorn, dean of the medical school at the hospital.
Veteran politician Sanan had not fully regained consciousness and was still being treated at Siriraj as of November 23.