NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A woman and her husband allegedly abandoned her 80-year-old "father" who was later confirmed to be infected with Covid-19, at a temple in Bua Lai district.
A Facebook user said to be a medical worker at Bua Yai Hospital posted pictures of an old man lying on a path near Wat Pa Suan Thamma Sawaddee in Ban Nong Waeng, in Bua Lai district.
The pictures were accompanied by written condemnation of a daughter's alleged maltreatment of her old father.
Luang Phor Sitthichai, abbot of Wat Pa Suan Thamma Sawaddee, said yesterday that a woman and her husband brought the elderly man to the temple on Sunday.
He said the couple told him the old man had known him when they lived in Khon Kaen province and wanted to stay with him at the temple. They then left the old man and a cloth bag at the temple and drove away.
Ban Nong Waeng village head Thongsuk Thaebtham, later learned from the old man that his daughter had brought him from Lop Buri province and left him at the temple.
Yesterday morning the old man wandered away from the temple and was later found lying on a path in the rain. Local health workers took him for a Covid-19 test, which returned positive. He was taken to a hospital in his native Khon Kaen province.
Monks at the temple, health workers and rescuers who were in close contact with him were placed under 14-day quarantine.
The village head said the daughter should not have treated her father that way, and had put others at risk of catching the virus.