Sa-nguan gets 2nd term as health boss
National Health Security Office (NHSO) secretary-general Dr Sa-nguan Nittayarumphong has been appointed to a second term.
His first four-year term expires tomorrow. NHSO appointment-panel chief Dr Paijit Pawabutr said Sa-nguan had vowed to provide health services people could trust. "He has highlighted the need to efficiently manage specialised treatments and high-cost diseases," Paijit, a former Public Health Ministry permanent secretary, added. Sa-nguan, 55, graduated from Mahidol University Medicine Faculty at Ramathibodi Hospital at 25. Between 2001 and 2003 he served as a deputy permanent secretary for Public Health before joining the NHSO. Public Health Minister Mongkol na Songkhla yesterday said the decision to re-appoint Sa-nguan was in line with regulations allowing secretaries-general two consecutive terms. Mongkol chairs the NHSO board, which yesterday prepared a Cabinet proposal seeking Bt101 billion in fiscal-2008 spending for universal-healthcare that will provide for free medical treatment. Spending is equivalent to Bt2,140 per patient, up from Bt2,096 this year.
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