Supachai Jaisamut, a Bhumjaithai list MP and party registrar, has petitioned the House committee on public health to launch a probe against a state-run hospital director, accusing the head medico of misconduct and insulting his superior.
Dr Supat Hasuwanakit, director of Chana District Hospital in Songkhla who is also the administrator of the Facebook page of the Rural Doctor Society (RDS), is the target of the petition.
Mr Supachai's petition came after the doctor posted an opinion on Facebook criticising the latest reshuffle of executives at the Ministry of Public Health which he said lacked good governance. Dr Supat also allegedly accused the ministry of pursuing a "deviant" cannabis policy.
Mr Supachai said he found Dr Supat's criticism unfair while the comments over the decriminalisation of cannabis, a Bhumjaithai Party policy, was an insult to the doctor's superior at the ministry.
Mr Supachai said, he also asked the same House committee to look into the RDS's alleged misconduct in its previous Covid-19 tracking and testing project carried out in a number of communities in Bangkok.
He said he believes the project, now being investigated by the ministry itself, didn't conform to the ministry's regulations.
According to a source, Pakon Mungcharoenphon, a Bhumjaithai MP for Surin in his capacity as the chairman of the House committee, has already included Mr Supachai's petition on the committee's meeting agenda for Sept 8.
In his response, Dr Supat insisted the Ministry of Public Health reshuffle was really unusual and that the RDS found nothing wrong in voicing its opinions on behalf of the community of medical doctors and other health workers on the matter.
As for the cannabis issue, he said, no medical doctors are supposed to voice support for the decriminalising of cannabis for recreational purposes.
He also insisted the RDS's Covid-19 testing project, conducted in July and August last year, was a charity and nothing in it could be problematic.
