STAFF nurses and nursing attendants of the Dr. Jose Ma. V. Borromeo Memorial District Hospital of Pinamungajan town in southwestern Cebu are seeking the transfer or removal of a doctor of the hospital for “unprofessional behavior” towards hospital staff and patients.
The staff nurses and nursing attendants filed a petition before the Office of Gov. Hilario Davide III and Vice Gov. Agnes Magpale asking the provincial government to immediately terminate or transfer the doctor.
The complainants submitted the petition letter last week at the two offices and were accompanied by Pinamungajan Vice Mayor Honeylet Yapha.
They, however, drafted the letter last August 22, 2016.
Cebu Daily News is withholding the name of the doctor until he can give his side of the issue.
CDN tried to get the doctor’s side but the doctor could not be reached for comment.
The complainants cited five reasons for their petition to remove the doctor from the hospital.
These include the doctor’s practice of giving orders on what to do with the patient even without assessing first what was the patient’s concern.
The petitioners also claimed that the doctor would not examine OB patients during delivery which would need the doctor’s assessment.
“(The doctor’s) attitude and behavior are unprofessional and cause a lot of burden especially (to the) patients,” he petition letter said.
Pinamungajan Vice Mayor Honeylet Yapha said that hospital personnel and employees sought her help on their complaint against the doctor.
“Personally I know (the resident doctor). We are friends but ang ako lang as vice mayor of Pinamungajan, as the person whom my constituents have been approaching, I felt the need to accompany them to the office of the vice governor,” she said.
Yapha said that she did not want the doctor to be taken out immediately, but she would want the Capitol to conduct an investigation on the concerns raised by her constituents.
Yapha also belied reports that the hospital had stopped accepting patients because of the complaints.
She said that the hospital continued to operate and assist patients in the town.