Parents hire lawyers, may sue hospital

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 05/21/2014

No one in the maternity hospital where baby Yohannes was born is taking responsibility for taping the infant’s mouth to quiet him. “We state for the record that the nurses and midwife had nothing to do with…

Dad starts online campaign to ‘break the silence’

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 05/20/2014

While hospital staff in Cebu City deny knowing who taped the mouth of a newborn boy, the father, Ryan Noval, is taking his grievance to a wider campaign using social media. The Fil-Am bicycle advocate launched a…

‘We didn’t tape baby’

05/18/2014

Four nurses and one midwife on duty denied taping the upper mouth of baby Yohannes in an in-house investigation by the Cebu Puericulture Center and Maternity House Inc. Lawyer Cornelio Mercado, spokesman of the private hospital, said…

Probers made to wait 3 hours by hospital execs

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 05/17/2014

One week after the issue surfaced, the Cebu Puericulture Center and Maternity House has yet to submit an incident report on the taping of a baby’s mouth, the investigation now includes two other agencies aside from the…

Parents of baby in hospital scandal want privacy, will pursue case

Marian Z. Codilla 05/15/2014

The parents of baby Yohannes, the newborn boy whose mouth was taped by a nurse in a private hospital asked media to allow them to spend quality time with each other. Their story had been published around…

‘Taped’ baby comes home; father says nurse’s lapse shows need ‘to fix the system’

Doris C. Bongcac 05/15/2014

His newborn son is home from the hospital but bicycle activist Ryan Noval isn’t finished with what he calls his “quest for justice.” Appearing before the Cebu City Council yesterday, the father of the infant said he’s…

Baby scare

05/14/2014

Indefensible. That was how the Cebu Medical Society described the actions of a group of doctors and nurses of Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) who figured in the Jan. 3, 2008 “Black Suede Scandal.” To recall,…

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