BY FELIPE CELINO
ROXAS City — A man was dismayed by spreading reports that his four-year-old son died of meningococcemia.
According to Frankie Baler of Brgy. Tanza, Panay town, most of his coworkers were keeping a distance from him and his children refused to go to school.
Dr. Samuel Delfin, Provincial Health Office (PHO) chief, earlier said the boy who died had high fever, headache and rashes on his body.
But Delfin clarified that it cannot be confirmed yet if such “symptoms” were indeed those of meningococcemia.
Baler’s son died on October 8 in the Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital. Laboratory results showed that his blood was negative of microorganisms.
In spite of this, the PHO gave antibiotics to the village where the boy lived and to the health personnel who attended to him.
