Public Health ministry sued for Bt3.7 million

Sanoh Saengchote, assisted by a network of medical malpractice victims, sued the ministry at the Nonthaburi Provincial Court. The case will open on March 3.

"I have sued the Public Health Ministry because it supervises the Phanat Nikhom Hospital," Sanoh said.

He said he had been "disabled" since the treatment. His wife Bangorn was consulting lawyers and the network about suing another state hospital.

"I plan to wait for my husband's case to finish first," she said. Bangorn believed carelessness by a surgeon had left her with extreme menstrual pain following a 1995 sterilisation procedure.

"In 1999 I approached another hospital, and an Xray showed something that looked like forceps in my stomach," she said. She returned to the first hospital, where the instrument was removed. She was told the surgeon had been "careless".

Bangorn requires injections to prevent menstruation.