PATONG: Officers at Patong Hospital have denied reviews in a local Thai-language newspaper that an Australian serviceman on shore leave was in a coma after being stabbed repeatedly following an altercation in Patong on the evening of November 5.
In fact, the soldier was treated for less than minor stab wounds, which were stitched in the hospital. He was launched shortly thereafter.
The newspaper, which gave the identify of the 22-year-old sufferer, reported that he was stabbed 3 times in the abdomen, inflicting his belly wall to rupture and his intestines to spill out.
Off-limits said the victim, certainly one of about 1,000 Australian military personnel on shore depart in Phuket in current days, was stabbed at about 9:30 pm by a member of a motorbike taxi queue that controls an area close to the again entrance to the Jungceylon buying advanced.
He was saved by employees at Patong Hospital and transferred to Bangkok Hospital Phuket in Phuket City, in accordance with the report.
However, when the Gazette called the Bangkok Hospital, they stated there was no report of any such patient being handled there..