"Diarrhoea"

A PRIVATE hospital is in hot waters for charging a patient Bt30,000 for a simple stomach infection.

With particularly high temperatures predicted this summer, the Disease Control Department has warned the public about the danger of five food- and water-borne diseases, including diarrhoea.

People in Songkhla are being warned to be careful what they eat after thousands were struck down by diarrhoea in the first two months of this year.

Diarrhoea has affected nearly 170,000 Thais this year with one person dying.