Boy, 7, falls off 3rd floor of Kalunasan school

CEBU, Philippines - A seven-year-old boy fell from the third floor of a school in Capitol Hills, Barangay Kalunasan, Cebu City yesterday afternoon.

Cliff Booc, a grade one student of Lyceum de Cebu –CFI (Court of First Instance) Coop Learning Center reportedly fell from the third floor of the school’s new building.

Details of the incident were sketchy but the child was reportedly playing near the railing of the third floor balcony when he fell to the ground. The boy’s classroom is reportedly located on the third floor. The class adviser, Rachel Asignar, 37, was reportedly not in the area when the incident happened.

Booc was rushed to Cebu Doctors Hospital and remained at the intensive care unit as of yesterday afternoon. The boy sustained injury on the head.

PO1 Baring Michael of the Guadalupe Police Station told The FREEMAN that they only learned about the incident after the Cebu City Police Office radioed them at around 4:45 p.m. yesterday. This was about four hours after the child fell reportedly at lunchtime.

The school’s faculty gathered for an emergency meeting yesterday afternoon to discus measures to prevent the incident from recurring.

The school president, Lito Astillero, said school will shoulder the child’s hospitalization expenses until he can fully recover.

Founded in 1985, the Lyceum de Cebu – CFI Coop Learning Center was previously called 4C’s Child Development Center. It is managed and owned by the Cebu CFI community.

The school was established through the efforts of the employees of CFI (now the Regional Trial Court) through the CFI Cooperative. The school offers pre-school to high school education. — (FREEMAN)