In Bangkok, 3 well being clinics were raided by the Consumer Protection Division Police who discovered unregistered South Korean doctors working there. The raids happened in Chitlom and Sri Nakharin in Bangkok, and Muang Thong Thani housing estate in neighbouring Nonthaburi and have been carried out beneath the coordination of Ministry of Public Health Ministerial Aide Sathit Pitudecha.
The raids happened after complaints had been reported that medical doctors from other nations were offering chiropractic services with out being registered to apply in Thailand. Quick had been found to not be registered to legally work within the clinics, though the docs in query have been found to be registered and qualified to practice in their home country of South Korea.
Without licenses issued in Thailand, practising medication in the nation is illegal, and the deputy minister reported that folks complained after paying 1000’s as a lot as lots of of hundreds of baht to these foreign doctors that they believed were not working legally.
The penalty for practising drugs with out the best registration and licensing is as much as 3 years in prison and/or fines of as a lot as 30,000 baht beneath laws created in 1999. Additional charges were reported to be pending for the docs related to the incident that could face extra jail terms of 2 to 3 years each.
Additionally, the clinics themselves had been discovered not to have correct paperwork and licenses and, consequently, the house owners of the clinics have been charged with violating the Hospital Act by allowing people to follow within the clinics with out proper documentation and permission, a cost which might deliver as a lot as 40,000 baht in fines and as much as 2 years in jail.
SOURCE: ASEAN Now and Bangkok Post