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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Monday, February 27, 2017
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BACOLOD City – Task Force Crusaders asked the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) national office to assign a medicolegal officer in Negros Occidental to expedite a probe stemming from a complaint against a hospital.
Part of the NBI investigation was to exhume the body of 21-year-old Mary Joy Geronca, who died in the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital (CLMMRH) due to alleged negligence.
But the task force found out the body has not been exhumed yet because the NBI-Bacolod was still waiting for the availability of the medicolegal officer from the Western Visayas office, the Crusaders’ national deputy commander John Chiong wrote NBI Director Dante Gierran on Feb. 23.
Task Force Crusaders believes the NBI national office will immediately act on the matter, being “dedicated to better government service.”
Jose Cesar Penario, Geronca’s father, filed the complaint against the CLMMRH.
Penario said his daughter and the twins she was carrying died when she was not immediately attended to while in emergency labor on Jan. 17.
A CLMMRH nurse told her to wait for her turn, while a security guard told her husband to leave the Emergency Room, Penario claimed.
Dr. Julius Drilon, chief of hospital, denied that the hospital was negligent. He stressed that the staff did everything to try to save the lives of Geronca and her twins./PN
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