
Who’s hurling the blame?
Em Ang, Bacolod Emergency Operations Center executive director, and Negros Occidental Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz.*Capitol and City PIO photos“We are not blaming them.”That was the response of Em Ang, Bacolod Emergency Operations Center executive director, to the statement of Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz on Wednesday, November 3, that it appears that the blame was being shifted to Negros Occidental.Diaz was reacting to Ang’s statement that about 50 percent of the COVID-19 patients in Bacolod City hospitals are from Negros Occidental's towns and cities.One of the reasons cited by the National Inter-Agency Task Force for placing Bacolod City under COVID-19 Alert Level 4 is its high hospital occupancy rate prompting Ang to point out that not all of the a...







