A Japanese woman is suing a well-known Bangkok private hospital for 82 million BHT for serious burns she suffered from an emergency machine while giving birth to her third child at the hospital.

BANGKOK – July 9, 2012 [PDN]; At the case-consideration room 814 of Civil Court, Ratchadapisek road, the court made an appointment to consider the case of a lawsuit, black number PB. 1461/2555. The plaintiff, Ms. Mikayo Ito, 41, is a Japanese native married to a Thai national. Named as the three defendants in the lawsuit were a Bangkok private hospital, the obstetrics doctor, and a company that sold an electric machine designed to stop bleeding. The machine had caught fire and burned Ms. Miyako, who is asking for 82,638,252.90 THB in damages.

Pattaya Daily News