MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume XI, No. 119
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022
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Patient deprived of Philhealth due to unfounded case vs BDH By CHRIS PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
BUTUAN CITY -- Butuan Doctors Hospital (BDH) has not yet been proven with the fraud charges on alleged fictitious 29 patients, but Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (Philhealth) has already deprived a patient of the treatment benefits for his surgical operation. Corporal Paul Fritz Silla,
a BDH patient suffering from avascular necrosis or dead bone had to personally spend the costly second surgical operation performed by Dr. Jerome Asuncion, head of the BDH Advanced Wound Care Center (AWCC) after hospital administrators decided to temporarily suspend Philhealth services while the case is still pending. He had been deducted
from his salary for his Philhealth monthly premium contributions for six years. Philhealth had particularly accused BDH of a consolidated case of 29 counts of claims which the charge sheet pointed out the hospital allegedly committed non-admitted or non-treated patients and breach of warranties and accreditation. See CASE, page 11
Diocese to South Cotabato legislators: don’t lift ban on open-pit mining By BONG S. SARMIENTO MindaNews
THE Department of Health in cooperation with Ayala Malls Centrio launch the anti-Covid vaccination of five to 11 years old age-level last February 15 in Cagayan de Oro City. For their parents’ willingness to get them vaccinated, the children were treated with cotton candy, ice cream and Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
DAVAO CITY -- The Catholic Church and its allied groups in South Cotabato are urging anew the Sangguniang Panlalawigan to retain the ban on open-pit mining, the method that will be employed in the controversial US$5.9 billion Tampakan project, the largest untapped copper-gold minefield in Southeast Asia. Protests greeted Friday’s See BAN, page 11
ILPI team that helped restore power in Cebu receives heroes welcome By DIVINA M. SUSON
ILIGAN CITY -- The team of seven linemen of Iligan Light and Power Incorporated (ILPI) who was sent to Cebu in December last year to help restore the province’s power supply after being destroyed by typhoon Odette, received their gift on Wednesday (February 16) from the group of retired faculty and staff of Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT). Engr. Jun Tano, team leader of the ILPI’s Task Employees of Iligan Light and Power, Inc. (ILPI) welcome their team, who was sent to Force (TF) Odette, said the Cebu to help restore power lines after the typhoon Odette destruction, as they were See RECEIVES, page 8
back home in Iligan on February 8, more than a month after the mission. (Divina M. Suson)
Protesters from the Diocese of Marbel and from multisectoral groups in South Cotabato air their sentiments against the proposed lifting of the ban on open-pit mining outside the gymnasium in Tampakan, South Cotabato where a public hearing was conducted on Friday, 18 February 2022. Photo courtesy of Social Action Center of the D iocese of M arbel