Chief of tambon hospital transferred for drinking while drawing blood

A director of a tambon-level (sub-district) health promotion hospital in Sakon Nakhon province is alleged to have been drinking beer while drawing blood from an 83-year-old patient on June 15. (Photo: Nong Nan Ap'y Facebook account)

The Sakon Nakhon Provincial Administration Organisation (PAO) has ordered the immediate transfer of the director of a tambon-level (sub-district) health promotion hospital following allegations that he drank beer while drawing blood from an elderly patient.

Images circulating on social media showed the as yet unidentified director of a tambon health promotion hospital in Waritchaphum district of Sakon Nakhon imbibing beer as he attempted to draw blood from an 83-year-old female patient.