DHSS Permanently Shuts Down Sothonchai Nursing Home Over Abuse and Violations

Details on the DHSS order to shut down Sothonchai Nursing Home due to substandard conditions.

Analysis of how the center exceeded its bed capacity and physical space limits.

Questions regarding how the center passed annual inspections and potential corruption.

How the center used a reception room to hide the actual living conditions from families and inspectors.

The logistical effort to move elderly and psychiatric patients to government hospitals.

Officials use bolt cutters to open rooms locked from the outside during a thorough search.

Auntie Maew defends the use of cage-beds as an innovation and denies torture.

The owner denies reports of patient deaths and plans to reopen under her son's name.

A reporter tests a cage-bed to demonstrate the extreme restriction of movement.

Parents and children describe the high costs, restricted communication, and deteriorating health of patients.

A family member reveals letters describing beatings and isolation punishments.