Here’s a warning for trigger-happy social media users.
Three nurses from the Tuburan District Hospital in Tuburan, Cebu have been suspended from their jobs for recording a video of a dying patient last Friday and posting it on social media, authorities said yesterday.
The video has gone viral as it shows the patient, 23-year-old Jimby Casas, lying on a stretcher bloodied and begging for help while hospital personnel who are not seen in the video watch and record him.
Netizens are criticizing the hospital and its staff for allegedly abandoning the patient.
The Commission on Human Rights in Central Visayas and the Cebu Provincial Health Office (PHO) are currently investigating the incident, The Freman reported.
Casas, a drug suspect, sustained gun wounds after allegedly fighting back authorities in a buy-bust operation at around 9:10pm last Friday, the same The Freeman report states.
According to Sun Star, he was shot in the face, cheek, chest, left arm, shoulder, and leg. Allegedly found in his possession were four sachets of suspected shabu (meth) and a .357 revolver.
The video of him in the Tuburan District Hospital was recorded by an unidentified nurse who sent it to fellow nurses who worked a different shift. These other nurses then posted the video on social media, PHO Chief Rene Catan told Sun Star.
Catan said that the hospital’s staff attended to the patient but stepped away from him when he became “restless,” Bombo Radyo, reported.
Tuburan District Hospital chief Dr. Esteban Ligaray had recommended Casas’ transfer to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City but he died before this was done.
He died at around 10:50pm, about an hour and 20 minutes after he was brought to the hospital, The Freeman wrote.
The PHO’s investigation on the incident will officially start on Monday, Catan said.
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