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Woman Accuses Emergency Operator of Mocking Call for Help

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2 years ago

July 22, 2020

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Emergency Operator Mocks Call in RATCHABURI — A woman in Ratchaburi province on Tuesday said she called an emergency hotline to seek help for her dying father, only to be mocked by the operator who hung up on her.

Pronrawin Ongpisut said she was at the side of her father, who was struggling to breathe when she called the hotline 1669 on Sunday morning. Pronrawin said the operator made an inaudible response and mimicked the sound of telephone calls, but the agency responsible said the incident was a misunderstanding.

“On my third call, a man who picked up the phone said ‘I can’t hear you’ before making the ‘beep beep’ sound and hanging up,” Pronrawin wrote on her Facebook post. “I’m not angry about the ambulance arriving late, but the person who picked up the phone and teased me while the patient was dying. Is it appropriate?”

The ambulance arrived minutes later, but her father, Pisut Ongpisut, died at the hospital the same day, she said. Pronrawin has filed a complaint to Ratchaburi Hospital, demanding the personnel in question grovel before her father’s body in apology.

But hospital director Pichien Wuttisatirapinyo said Tuesday that the operator did not intend to make fun of the emergency.

What happened was likely a misunderstanding since the patient’s relative might have been stressed at that moment, he said.

“I understand that the patient’s relative was anxious as she was worried about her father, so some of the words she heard might have been unsettling,” Pichien said. “The operator was very sorry about the misunderstanding.”

The operator, whose name was withheld, also attended the funeral at a temple in Ratchaburi province together with the hospital’s management on Tuesday afternoon.

He spent about five minutes talking to Pronrawin in private, after which she said the man apologized for what happened.

Pronrawin said the man was unable to hear her voice, while the beep sound she heard came from the indistinct sentence which the man said ‘he could only hear beep beep.’

“An apology was made and there’s no more dispute,” Pronrawin said. “I just want an apology and clarification from him. My father will be cremated this Thursday so I want everything to be settled.”

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Police chain suspects doors and windows until next morning

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2 years ago

August 10, 2020

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On August 9, A man attacked an officer, took his gun, and fled to his house in Plang Yao District, Chachoengsao Province. The officer then tried to persuade him to surrender for more than 6 hours but still failed.

Later at 6:00 pm, Plangyao Police Station decided to send 50 officers from a special operations unit in Chachoengsao Province.

The standoff lasted until 11:00 p.m. and the villain still showed no signs of surrendering.

So, they decided to chain his doors and windows preventing him from escaping until the next day rather than risk any of the officers or even the suspect’s life.

Meanwhile, the Royal Thai Police in Chachoengsao Province started to process a search warrant for the next morning after leaving a couple of police officers to watch the house.

Later, Col. Sonthaya revealed that the perpetrator was named Mr. Anon, 45, at the house in Tha Bunmi Subdistrict, Koh Chan District, Chonburi Province, who went into a drunken methamphetamine rampage and destroyed his neighbor’s ricefields.

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Police tried to intervene but Mr. Anont took a gun from Officer Or Sor and ran away. Mr. Anon’s daughter also reported his unusual behavior saying he was showing signs of aggressive behavior telling officers to exercise caution especially since he had a gun.

Police hope he will surrender after bringing a search warrant after the drugs wear off. To be continued……..

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Later, it was reported that the suspect had escaped through the back of his house prior to officers boarding up his doors and windows. Police then conducted a search of the house and did not find the stolen gun. Police are still searching for the armed and dangerous suspect now.

Source and photos: https://www.khaosod.co.th/breaking-news/news_4678351

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2 Thai embassies hit by Covid-19 outbreaks

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2 years ago

August 9, 2020

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Thai embassies hit by Covid-19: Staff members of Thai embassies in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have contracted the novel coronavirus, according to the Foreign Ministry. The embassy in Manama reported that a foreign employee suffering mild symptoms tested positive for Covid-19, ministry spokesman Cherdkiat Atthakor said on Sunday.

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‘Sick’ policeman jumps to his death from hospital

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2 years ago

August 9, 2020

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A policeman in Si Sa Ket province who suffered from mental illness reportedly killed himself on Saturday (August 8) by jumping out of the hospital building. The deceased, Suwaroj Khumthong, 53, was a police officer at Muang Chan Police Station who was admitted to Sisaket Hospital due to his mental condition.

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