BMA has no law on paying compensation, official says
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There is no city regulation or law to support payment of compensation to a man who sustained a wound requiring 100 stitches after falling down a water-drainage pipe in Ratchadaphisek Soi 26 last month, the permanent secretary of the Bangkok Metropolitan A
Responding to news that the injured man, Wachira Sawasdi, was trying to raise funds via social media to sue the city, Peerapong said city officials had provided him a sum of financial aid – raised personally among the officials themselves – and promised to cover his medical bills. So if the man wanted more compensation – reportedly 10 times what he was given – then he had the right to file a lawsuit. Peerapong said city workers also had repaired the pipe to prevent any accident in the future. He said the governor had approved an emergency budget of Bt5 million per district office to handle these kinds of problems. In this case the pipe was fixed right after the accident.
