Attempt to discredit MediKalinga mission fails
A MALICIOUS attempt to blame a medical mission for the death of one beneficiary was blunted by medical records.
According to medical records of one Alfredo Lomibao from Mangaldan at the Region 1 Medical Center in Dagupan, he was suffering from a bleeding ulcer even before the minor procedure removing the cyst on his nape was done by the MediKalinga medical of MediKalinga of former Pangasinan Fifth District Rep. Mark Cojuangco last week.
This was clarified by Dr. Roland Mejia, R1MC chief, in Dagupan City, in an interview Friday after a report uploaded on YouTube “exposed” the MediKalinga as the cause of the death of Lomibao.
“It was upper gastro intestine bleeding, bleeding peptic ulcer that caused his death,” Mejia said.
“Based on the medical records of Alfredo Lomibao, he was admitted on November 15 at the R1MC and was diagnosed to have a gastro intestinal bleeding,” Mejia said.
He added that Lomibao underwent thorough laboratory examination and was found positive of H. plori bacteria. “He had a chronic peptic ulcer disease,” he pointed out.
- pylori is a bacteria that aggravate and thrive in ulcer, he said. It is not immediately felt until a patient becomes weak due to lack of red blood cell, he added.
The patient was given blood transfusion but died the next day, Mejia said.
“The operated wound on the nape of Lomibao done by MediKalinga doctors “is very dry, the operation was done good, no gaping, so we do not associate the operation on his neck as the cause of death of the patient,” he clarified.
Mejia added that if a wound is dry few days after operation, it means “there is no infection, there’s good healing process.”
“It was his intestine that was bleeding,” he added.
Sought for his reaction, Cojuangco said he is saddened by attempts of some people to malign him and the services he is providing for the poor people by fabricating and spreading lies.
He said MediKalinga will continue until it has covered all the six districts in Pangasinan. (Tita Roces)
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