Patient shot dead on hospital ward
published : 7 Jun 2024 at 13:25
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Chakkrapan Natanri
A Myanmar patient was shot dead while awaiting surgery at a Khon Kaen hospital in the early hours of Friday.
Police found Kyaw Swar Aong, 29, with a gunshot wound to head. Hospital staff moved him to the emergency ward but he died shortly afterward.
His Thai girlfriend said her boyfriend was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday after a tumour was found in his back. He was awaiting surgery before the shooting.
She learned that he had borrowed 12,000 baht from his fellow worker at the factory where they worked, giving his ATM card as a guarantee for the loan.
A medical team was due to perform surgery to remove his tumour on Friday, said the woman.
According to police, the gunman pretended to be a visitor and asked a nurse about the patient's ward. Upon entering the ward, the gunman fired a shot at the patient and immediately fled.
Police are looking for a Myanmar national working in the same factory who has since disappeared.
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Vocabulary
- flee (past form: fled) (verb): to leave a place or person quickly because you are afraid of possible danger or consequences - หนี
- guarantee: to promise someone that they will have something or will get something - รับประกัน, ค้ำประกัน
- patient: someone who is receiving medical treatment - คนป่วย, คนไข้
- pretend: to behave as if something is true when you know that it is not, especially in order to deceive people or as a game - แกล้งทำว่าเป็นจริง
- surgery: medical treatment in which a doctor cuts open someone’s body - การทำศัลยกรรม
- tumour: a mass of cells in your body that grow in a way that is not normal - เนื้องอก
- ward: a separate room or area in a hospital for people with the same type of medical condition - แผนกในโรงพยาบาลที่มีคนไข้ประเภทเดียวกัน
- wound: an injury in which your skin or flesh is damaged - บาดแผล
