{"id":14926,"date":"2014-06-14T10:46:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T02:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=14926"},"modified":"2014-06-14T10:46:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T02:46:43","slug":"doj-recommends-sacking-of-nbp-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/14\/doj-recommends-sacking-of-nbp-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ recommends sacking of NBP doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MANILA — Several doctors inside the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP) have been recommended to be relieved from their post following questionable outside referrals to private hospitals given to high profile inmates in a span of two weeks without clearance from Justice Secretary Leila M. De Lima.<\/span><\/p>\n

De Lima on Friday said that Justice Undersecretary Francisco Baraan III, the undersecretary-in-charge of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor), made the recommendation following several reports that high profile inmates managed to go to private hospitals without her clearance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Herbert Colangco alias “Ampang” was brought to the Asian Hospital and Medical Center in Alabang, Muntinlupa City last May 27.<\/span><\/p>\n

Colangco is the leader of the bank robbery gang responsible for the heists in 2003 in Pampanga, and Quezon City and Paranaque City in 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amin Buratong, the operator of the shabu “tiangge” (drug flea market) was taken to Medical City, Pasig City reportedly due to recurring coronary disease and a liver ailment last May 13.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another convicted drug lord Ricardo Camata, commander of the Sigue Sigue Sputnik gang, was taken May 28 to the Metropolitan Hospital in Manila for a lung ailment. Starlet Krista Miller, who said she visited only to sell a condominium unit, and television dancers were among his visitors.<\/span><\/p>\n

De Lima said that Baraan already submitted an initial report to her.<\/span><\/p>\n

“There is a recommendation in the initial report to relieve doctors in the NBP hospital, about a couple of them responsible in issuing so-called emergency referrals,” De Lima said.<\/span><\/p>\n

De Lima added that Usec. Baraan, based on his initial probe, believes these are “not really an emergency situation and therefore should have sought prior approval from me.”<\/span><\/p>\n

De Lima said that she will create a body to dig deeper into the private hospitalization of high profile inmates particularly those who are believed to be “monied drug inmates.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“There are a few more recommendations… I’m still studying other recommendations but, definitely, I will be constituting a committee or a fact-finding panel to expand the investigation,” she said. “But the [Baraan] initial report should serve as a very good starting point for the expanded probe. We’re going to have really an honest-to-goodness serious and expanded probe into this whole thing.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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