Have you smelled rotten eggs while wandering around Siam Square One?

That’s actually a highly toxic and flammable gas which has been sickening employees since the mall opened in June, according to health officials and the shop owners who’ve banded together to go public with their complaints to the media after they said the mall’s management ignored them.

They said five letters complaining of foul-smelling gas went ignored by mall management until health officials came last month and confirmed health-threatening quantities of hydrogen sulfide were found in the mall.

The mall has since acknowledged the problem but will remain open despite the confirmed, ongoing presence of highly toxic and dangerous fumes.

Sitprapat Rodpim, a shop owner at Siam Square One, filed a police report last week after the department store attempted to evict him because he closed his shop and displayed messages on the window glass warning shoppers of the toxic air.

“Warning: the hydrogen sulfide level in here varies from 10-83 ppm. The level is dangerous for living creatures!” shop owner Sitprapat Rodpim wrote on signs posted outside his closed shop to warn customers. Photo: Pantip

Another sign in English explained the shop had been closed due to the effect of the gas on the staff’s respiratory systems, which had made them sick.

Sitprapat also showed a medical note from his doctor proving he has been suffering from a sinus inflammation since five months ago, around the time the mall opened. Other shop owners reported illness in a Channel 3 news report.

“I don’t know how Chulalongkorn, which is an educational institute, allowed this to happen to the tenants and their customers,” Sitprapat said. “Why didn’t you close the mall? Why did you allow this to happen?”

The tenants said they have been smelling the gas since the opening of the shopping mall on June 5 and also believed the chemicals in the air caused rust damages to their metal products and even coins.

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