A victim of the military crackdown on the red-shirt protesters in mid-May is in a coma in an intensive-care unit.
As of press time yesterday, Boonmee Rermsook, 71, |had been in the ICU of the Police General Hospital |on a ventilator since Monday night, director Pol Lt-General Jongjate Aojanepong said.
Jongjate said Boonmee's blood had a bacterial infection.
"Doctors need to monitor his condition around the clock because he is in a coma.
"He has little chance of surviving."
The victim's son-in-law Sorayut Naknaka said Boonmee had suffered gunshot wounds to his small intestine near Bon Kai community on May 14.
Right after Boonmee was shot, he had been in Charoenkrung Pracharak Hospital for about a month.
He had three operations on his small intestine before his family requested he be transferred to the Police General Hospital for treatment with thrombolytic drugs, which dissolve blood clots, Sorayut said.
Jongjate said earlier Boonmee had an operation on his large intestine before the shooting.
He now was suffering from leakage from the small intestine, but the effects of the earlier operation kept doctors from repairing the damage.
During a visit to a patient at the hospital injured by last weekend's Big C Rajdamri explosion, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday also met Boonmee's family.