Elderly voters cast their votes at the Emergency Accessible Polling Place (EAPP) that was set up at the Tisa National High School./CDND File Photo
CEBU CITY, Philippines – An elderly man died shortly after he was able to cast his vote at the Pasil Elementary School in Cebu City at around 10:34 a.m. today, May 13.
Wesley Yñigo, operations chief of the Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office, said that the old man who was only identified as a certain Dodo did not reach the Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC) alive.
Dodo, who is about 70-years-old, died of cardiac arrest.
Witnesses said that Dodo, a resident of the neighboring barangay of Suba, went to the Pasil Elementary School on Monday morning to cast his vote. He was accompanied by a grandchild.
The old man waited for 2o to 30 minutes before he was finally able to cast his vote at clustered precinct 709.
It was his grandchild who fed the old man’s ballot into the Vote Counting Machine (VCM). While the child did so, Dodo suddenly collapsed.
Ynigo said that personnel from the Cebu City Ambulance Services -EMS tried to resuscitate Dodo but he was already unresponsive. /dcb