Thai man arrested for pouring acid on wife, who dies after allegedly being refused treatment

The 12-year-old daughter with family and police beside mother’s casket. Photo: Facebook/ Vichai Sookkratoke
The 12-year-old daughter with family and police beside mother’s casket. Photo: Facebook/ Vichai Sookkratoke

A Bangkok man was arrested in the wee hours of this morning for allegedly splashing acid on the face of his wife in a fit of jealousy — an attack that led to her death within hours. Meanwhile, the private hospital that refused her treatment and sent her instead to a public facility covered by Thailand’s welfare scheme is being investigated for neglect.

Kamton Singhanart, 50, was captured at a friend’s house today in northern Nakhon Sawan province’s Banphot Phisai District. He is now being held and interrogated at Tha Kham police station in Bangkok.

Police had been looking for the man since Saturday, when he allegedly fled the scene of the crime after conducting an acid attack on his 38-year-old wife Chorladda Tarawan, Khaosod reported.

The woman later died in the taxi while on the way to a second hospital after allegedly being refused treatment from the private facility she was initially taken to. They are being investigated for possible neglect.

Following the attack, it was Chorladda’s panicked 12-year-old daughter who reportedly had to rush her mom to the hospital.

While the driver was directed to go to Bangmod Hospital in Chom Thong district, a public facility, he took the pair to the considerably closer Praram 2 Hospital after observing the severity of Chorladda’s condition.

Upon arrival, however, staff at the private facility allegedly performed first aid on Chorladda, then decided her condition was not serious enough to demand immediate treatment and called the pair a cab to take them to Bangmog Hospital.

In an interview with local outlet Sanook, a hospital administrator insisted that they were only following Chorladda’s own request to receive treatment at the public hospital, where she could use her medical welfare coverage, a claim hotly disputed by her family.

Chorladda died during the second cab ride.

Praram 2 hospital’s response to the situation has quickly become a heated topic of debate.

A campaign, spearheaded over the past 24 hours by activist lawyer Atchariya Rueangratanpong and the victim’s family, has led the Department of Health Service Support to say they will investigate Praram 2 Hospital’s treatment of the woman.

Photo: Facebook/ Vichai Sookkratoke
Photo: Facebook/ Vichai Sookkratoke


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