Ailing teacher gets royal visit
HRH Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, holding HRH Prince Teepangkorn Rasmichoti, Princess Srirasmi, left, and Princess Bajra Kitiyabha pay a visit to comatose teacher Juling Panganmoon at the Songkhla Hospital yesterday.
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HRH Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn yesterday visited Juling Panganmoon, the teacher who has been in a coma since a brutal attack in May, at the Prince of Songkhla Hospital in Hat Yai.
More than 1,000 people gathered to welcome the Crown Prince, Princess Srirasmi and Princess Bajra Kitiyabha as they arrived at the hospital to visit the teacher on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen. The 24-year-old teacher and another woman teacher at Ban Kuching Reupah School in Narathiwat's Rangae district were taken hostage in May by villagers demanding the release of two suspects arrested in connection with the murder of two marines in the same district last year. They were beaten up by the villagers while security forces were trying to organise their rescue. Juling has been in a coma at the Songkhla Hospital since then, and breathes with the assistance of a respirator. Her pulse and blood pressure are stable, but her brain shows little activity, said Dr Sumet Peerawut, chairman of the hospital. Despite being unconsciousness for months, her medical team has not yet reached a conclusion as to whether she is technically dead, the doctor told her royal visitors.
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