Boy’s father ill-advised — hospital chief
BY FELIPE CELINO
ROXAS City — The administrator of the Capiz Emmanuel Hospital (CEH) denied demanding for P30,000 as payment before letting six-year-old Jenfred Aranzado undergo surgery after falling from a tree on New Year’s Eve.
Jessie Contreras explained that an initial payment is required for medical procedures like surgery, but it could be waived if the patient or his family does not have enough money.
“It was not mandatory for private hospitals to demand for a down payment before confining and treating a patient,” he said.
Aranzado of Brgy. Majanlud, Sapian town fell from a tree on New Year’s Eve and sustained severe abdominal injuries.
He was first taken to the CEH (not Capiz Doctors’ Hospital, as earlier reported) but was later transferred to the Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital (RMPH) where he died.
Contreras said the boy’s father, Rene, who claimed that CEH demanded cash, was ill-advised.
He also said proper medical treatment had been applied to Aranzado before his transfer to the RMPH.
Rene blamed the RMPH for the death of his son.
He said no doctor entertained them when they entered the RMPH; some nurses merely checked his son’s vital signs.
Rene believed his son would have survived had doctors in RMPH attended to him.
The RMPH started an investigation on the alleged negligence of some RMPH personnel that resulted to the death of Aranzado.
There will be no whitewash in the probe; whoever is responsible will be penalized, assured RMPH chief of hospital, Dr. Ma. Celini Bauson.
Bauson required the nurse-on-duty and other hospital personnel who attended to the child to submit an incident report.
She said the RMPH had two surgeons-on-call when Aranzado arrived.
