Woman dies after abortion in condo clinic
Manila, Philippines - A 27-year-old woman died after undergoing a failed abortion in a clandestine clinic at a condominium in Pasay City Wednesday afternoon, police said yesterday.
According to a police report, Jay Vanessa Yamson asked her mother, Janet, to accompany her for a medical check-up. They went to Unit 817 of the Park Avenue Mansion, where the alleged doctors were waiting for them.
Janet was asked to wait in the receiving area until the check-up was finished. After a while, her daughter called for her. She went into the room and found her daughter bleeding.
She then asked the doctors to bring her daughter to the nearest hospital, but Yamson was declared dead on arrival at the San Juan de Dios Hospital.
Homicide investigators Senior Police Officer 3 Leo Labrador and PO3 Denis Desalisa, together with Janet’s driver, immediately went to the condominium unit where the abortion took place. The doctors fled before the lawmen arrived and remain at large.
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