Formal charges will be filed against several Bago City Hospital medical practitioners in connection with a complaint against them for the death of a baby in February, Bago Mayor Nicholas Yulo said on Monday, March 10.
Yulo, acting on the complaint of the baby’s father on social media, created a fact-finding committee to investigate the matter.
The father claimed there was negligence on the part of the hospital staff that caused his son to die and his wife to be in critical condition.
His wife was in labor for 12 hours and asked to give birth by cesarian, but her request was not heeded, the father said.
Yulo said the fact-finding committee concluded that substantial evidence exists to establish the fact that the medical practitioners involved “committed lapses in doing their duties and responsibilities and therefore recommends the filing of an appropriate administrative charge against them”.
The mayor withheld the names and number of medical practitioners involved.
Civil Service Commission rules state that the report must be treated as confidential until charges have been filed against the personnel concerned, Yulo said.
Yulo said the complaint was made on social media and “as the disciplining officer I took it upon myself to have the matter investigated”.
Bago City Legal Officer Aaron Lirazan said as soon as the mayor appoints a hearing office the administrative hearing of the complaint will start.
The Bago City government will be the complainant in the case since it involves employees of the Bago City Hospital, he said.*