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Filipino man dies after being forced to do 300 squats as punishment for breaking lockdown
The south east Asian country has one of the harshest lockdowns in the world as the number of cases of Covid continues to soar
Residents of Manila queue for aid
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A young Filipino man has died after being forced by police to do 300 squat-like exercises as punishment for reportedly breaking strict new Covid-19 lockdown rules, according to his friends and family.
Darren Manaog Peñaredondo, 28, suffered a seizure at home and died in hospital a day after the humiliating exercise last Thursday night. His death certificate indicated the cause of death was a stroke and cardiovascular hypertension.
Published April 6, 2021, 9:38 AM
The president of the Philippine Hospital Association (PHA) painted a grim image of the situation in hospitals in Metro Manila as medical facilitates race against time to treat the overwhelming number of infected patients amid the ongoing surge of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
“The situations is very dire. I actually describe it as a nightmare because the most dreaded thing that we do not want to happen is now happening in reality,” PHA president Dr. Jaime Almora said in an interview over CNN Philippines on Tuesday, April 6.
Almora lamented that hospitals have become a place full of anger, suffering, fear, despair, and frustration as healthcare workers struggle to keep up with the number of patients seeking medical attention.
The head of a doctors grouprecounts situations that are far too common for those tending to their loved ones who got infected long lines in emergency rooms, overworked medical staff, medical resources running out, and dying patients who could not get immediate treatment.
Published April 6, 2021, 11:53 AM
The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) has called out the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to address the backlogs on the release of claims of hospitals.
“There seems to be a mounting request from the hospitals to reimburse immediately specifically those hospitals, the smaller ones that are really dying to continue their operations for their people,” ARTA Director General Jeremiah Belgica relayed this to the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF).
ARTA Director-General Jeremiah Belgica (FACEBOOK/MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
The ARTA chief attended Monday, April 5, the dialogue between PhilHealth and Philippine Hospital Association (PHA) on the latter’s call for the timely reimbursement of their claims yesterday.