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'Bleach mum' exposes welfare failure
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 03/06/2020
» Had not the doctors intervened, a two-year-old toddler may have been poisoned to death by his mother. They could not save the boy's four-year-old sister, however. She was already dead from the same malady.
Racism holds back economy as society ages
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 15/02/2018
» The government's policy to encourage more births of "Thai" children to help offset the cost of a rapidly approaching ageing society reflects deep-rooted racial prejudice in policy formulation.
Ministry's power trip bad for people's health
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 25/07/2017
» If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Public health authorities are not paying heed to these cautionary words however, because their plan to fix the National Health Security Act is not about how to better serve the 49 million people under universal healthcare coverage. It's about their own power.
Sangha Council's rigid control must ease
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 19/01/2017
» The newly amended Sangha Act may effectively put an end to the supreme patriarch nomination row, but it cannot restore public faith in the corruption-ridden clergy. Nor can it stop the popularity of the controversial Dhammakaya temple.
Time for a hard look at orphanages
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 06/08/2014
» In a society where the numbers of single women with financial security are rising, why are they still barred from seeking adoption and surrogacy services just because the authorities want to protect the traditional mum-and-dad family model that is quickly crumbling?
Free trade deal threatens farmers
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 18/09/2013
» Is Thailand no longer an agricultural country? Many people believe so and they have the statistics to prove their point. I beg to differ.
Private health bias puts cash ahead of lives
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 05/06/2013
» When the 2011 Central Plains flood crisis ravaged industrial estates in Ayutthaya and destroyed the country's biggest dialysis solution production plant, more than 40,000 patients' lives were endangered.