Deputy Mayor Verawat Khakhay and a doctor
from the city Social Welfare Department visit Sa-nuan Pansuwan as part
of the city’s medical outreach program.
Pratchaya Kerdthong
City officials paid a house call to an 83-year-old
woman who fell from a tree and has been unable to go to the hospital for
a month.
Deputy Mayor Verawat Khakhay and a doctor from the
city Social Welfare Department visited Sa-nuan Pansuwan, who had fallen
after climbing into a tamarind tree to pick fruit. The grandmother has
been bedridden for a month with a broken leg, shoulder and vertebrae,
along with other injuries.
Daughter Penchan Klinseesuk said her mother had been
hospitalized after the accident two months ago, but returned home.
However, she has been too sore and injured to return to a doctor for a
month. Family members are treating her as best they can to prevent bed
sores and infection.
Verawat, who visited Sa-nuan as part of the city’s
medical outreach program, said he will get more details about her case
in hopes of having her hospitalized full-time until she heals. In the
interim, the Social Welfare doctor administered oral and topical
medications until more can be done.
