By CYRUS M. GARDE
BACOLOD City — All security guards in hospitals must be armed, the Isabela municipal police chief stressed.
Senior Inspector Ramil Sarona believes that had the security guard of Ignacio Arroyo Sr. Memorial District Hospital been armed, he would have subdued a farmer who ran amok and stabbed the guard himself and two others.
Tricycle driver Ramonito Guillero, Amin village councilperson Helen Noble and security guard Noel De la Cruz sustained stab wounds.
Hilarion Bardoc, 55, of Barangay Macagahay, Moises Padilla town, was at the hospital, where his mother was confined, but was about to go home when, for a still unknown reason, he went on a stabbing spree.
Folks at the hospital helped each other subdue Bardoc by stoning him until the police arrived.
Unfortunately, the district hospital does not allow its security guards to carry any firearm, Sarona said. He did not know the reason.
Bardoc was detained in the Isabela police station. Frustrated homicide charges were filed against him yesterday at the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office here.
It appears that Bardoc has a nervous breakdown. He has become unruly inside the detention cell, Sarona revealed.
De la Cruz and Guillero were taken to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital and Noble to the Adventist Medical Center — all in Bacolod City — for treatment./PN
