PPH chief nurse, son face charges for fake license
LINGAYEN–The son of the chief nurse at the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital (PPH) in San Carlos City, who was employed in the same hospital several months ago, holds a fake license to practice and is now facing administrative charges.
Darwin Bautista, who started working as a contractual nurse at the government-owned PPH in February this year, was discovered to have fraudulently claimed that he passed the Nursing Licensure Examination held on December 2005, and hid the fact that the chief nurse is his mother.
The mother, Aurora Bautista, has also been charged with dishonesty, gross neglect of duty, misconduct, and conduct prejudicial to the interest of public service, for condoning her son’s fraudulent claim.
Atty. Geraldine Baniqued, provincial legal officer and chairman of the committee on administrative cases formed by Governor Amado Espino Jr, sent copies of the separate charges against the mother and son to provincial government on July 15.
The charge sheet against Darwin reads: “Verification revealed that you are not among the successful examinees in the said December 2005 Nursing Licensure Exam. Also, you did not state in your Personal Data Sheet [paragraph 36 (a)] that Mrs. Aurora P. Bautista, Chief Nurse and your immediate supervisor in the said provincial hospital is related to you by consanguinity”.
Darwin, who has been relieved from his duties, has been directed to submit his verified answer to the charges “within 10 days from receipt thereof.”
In the formal charge against Aurora, the committee said, “As Chief Nurse, you allowed, consented and exerted undue influence, to the illegal and unlawful acts of your son, Darwin P. Bautista, of performing the functions and duties of a Contractual Nurse/Casual in the Provincial Hospital, despite knowledge that the latter did not pass the December 2005 Nursing Licensure Examination and therefore, is not a qualified registered nurse.”
She has likewise been given 10 days to submit her reply.
Baniqued told The PUNCH that nine administrative cases against hospital personnel in hospitals operated by the provincial government are still pending in the committee.
She said two other people accused of charges similar to Darwin’s case had resigned before the complaints could be filed.
The committee made the investigation after reports circulated around the hospital about Darwin’s fake nursing license.
The governor will decide on the mother-and-son cases based on the recommendations to be submitted by the committee. #
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