ILOILO – The provincial government is set to create a fact-finding committee to look into the viral video of a cop from the Banate municipal police station and a staff of the Gov. Niel D. Tupas Sr. District Hospital, formerly known as the Barotac Viejo District Hospital.
According to Provincial Administrator Suzette Mamon, “Ma-convene ang committee, ma-create sa legal office nga level and ipat awag ang concerned persons.”
The fact-finding committee would hear both sides of the police and the staff involved and make a recommendation.
VIRAL VIDEO
The incident happened at the hospital’s triaging area on Monday night (Aug. 2) after Police Master Sergeant Hizron Baterbonia brought a mauling victim for treatment.
In the over five-minute-long video, Baterbonia was seen talking to a female staff.
However, the staff explained their current protocols – no walk-in patients and no one is available to sign a medical certificate as their doctors are all under “contract of service”.
The cop said, “Amon tani ginalagas, Ma’am, nga bisan madapatan lang sia first aid bala…kay indi kami medical personnel.”
“Ginadala ta rush ang pasyente sa hospital para mangin safe ang kabuhi. Paano na abi karon kon nakastiguhan kag nagkalabali? Rasonan ta lang nga indi permanente, contractual (ang doctor), indi pagtandugon? Kalain man, indi man amo sina…Kami kon may medical personnel indi na namon pagdal-on sa inyo. May order ina sa Court nga dapat dal-on sa hospital kay kamo kabalo sa ginatawag nga medical,” he added.
The staff then explained: “It so happened, Sir, nga ang aton mga doctor, Sir, bag-o lang sila kag contractual lang sila, Sir,” said the staff who refused to give her name.
The policeman decided to bring the patient to the Don Jose S. Monfort Medical Center Extension Hospital in Barotac Nuevo town.
PROTOCOL
Mamon clarified that all provincial government-run hospitals have their protocols in receiving patients.
“Kon may mag-abot nga pasyente, there should be proper assessment. That is the procedure kay may doctor ‘na da sa emergency room,” said Mamon in an interview over DYOK Aksyon Radyo Iloilo.
Mamon also noted that there were times the doctors could not immediately accommodate patients as there are others they were attending to.
However, Mamon said a hospital must not decline emergency cases.
Dr. Cenon C. Guiban Jr., chief of the Gov. Niel D. Tupas Sr. District Hospital, on Wednesday submitted an incident report to the Provincial Legal Office./PN
