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ONE OF THE country’s biggest hospitals, the Bangkok-based Siriraj, will start using robots to dispense medicine this year. “We believe they will help us improve patients’ safety even further,” Dr Prof Prasit Watanapa, dean of Mahidol University’s Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, said yesterday. The hopital now serves between 8,000 and
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BANGKOK — H.M. King Bhumibol Adulyadej is being closely monitored for irregular function of his heart muscles, the Royal Household Bureau announced last night. The monthly palace health update Wednesday said the 88-year-old king also suffers from stomach pain throughout May rendering him unable to eat.The king’s team of personal physicians
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BAGNKOK, 15 May 2016 (NNT) - The Bureau of the Royal Household has issued an announcement on the condition of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej as he is undergoing treatment at Siriraj Hospital. On May 11, His Majesty the King reportedly developed a fever, accompanied with an increase in pulse rate
Read More BANGKOK, 9 March 2016 (NNT) - The team of doctors tending His Majesty the King at Siriraj Hospital has stopped giving an intravenous antibiotic injection to His Majesty after additional results of special laboratory tests showed the King no longer has bacterial infections. In the 22nd statement on the condition of
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PHRA Thammasing Burajarn, better known as Luang Por Charan Thitathammo, died Monday at age 87 at Bangkok’s Siriraj Hospital while being treated for severe pneumonia. Luang Por Charan, who was the abbot of Wat Amphawan in Sing Buri's Phrom Buri district, had been treated at the hospital since December 20. He
Read More BANGKOK — Princess Chulabhorn has called upon all Thais to pray for her father, King Bhumibol, who is being treated for blood and lung infections at a hospital in Bangkok. The princess, who is His Majesty's fourth and youngest child, put the call out during a speech to staff members of
Read More His Majesty's condition has improved, with blood pressure returning to a stable level and fever reducing close to normal level after treatment at Siriraj Hospital, the Royal Household Bureau said on Monday. Though heartbeat has returned to normal, His Majesty's breathing rate, at times, is still slightly faster than normal, the
Read More BANGKOK, 11 August 2015 (NNT) - According to the Bureau of the Royal Household, His Majesty the King is recuperating at Siriraj Hospital as the level of cerebrospinal fluid has decreased and lung inflammation is no longer found. Royal physicians reported that they previously conducted a thorough examination of the health
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