Capitol won't probe Bantayan "catheter" incident

CEBU, Philippines - Citing the newspaper report as “kuryente” or false, the Capitol is not looking into the incident wherein a janitor allegedly performed a medical procedure on a patient in Bantayan District Hospital.

Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia said there was nothing to investigate because she said the report was not true in the first place.

“Kuryente man to nga report, wa man to gi-verify,” Garcia told reporters as she declared that the case is closed.

She said the management of Don Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center already denied the statements attributed to them in the report that the improperly inserted catheter had caused the patient to urinate blood.

According to Garcia, the VSMMC thru its media liaison officer Dr. Emmanuel Gines even confirmed that patient Astero Rivera had a difficulty in urinating.

Gines also confirmed that there was difficulty in inserting the catheter but the presence of blood in his urine was not caused by the improper insertion of catheter.

Garcia said it was not also true that Arturo Abello is janitor of Bantayan District Hospital as reported in the newspaper. She said Abello was an institutional worker trained to assist medical personnel.

Garcia earlier got irked over the report which she said had put the province-owned hospital in bad light.

Rivera, 68, from Barangay Ticad, Bantayan, was quoted in the report to have said that a janitor was tasked to insert a catheter on him.   (FREEMAN NEWS)