{"id":3374,"date":"2014-09-01T18:18:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T18:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2014-09-01T18:18:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T18:18:26","slug":"critically-ill-child-denied-hospital-entry-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3374","title":{"rendered":"Critically-ill child denied hospital entry, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Butuan City, Philippines<\/span><\/strong>\u2014A distraught mother took to social media to express her grief over the death of her 10-year-old daughter, who was denied admission in a Butuan City hospital because she could not pay the admission deposit.<\/p>\n

Tutz Salarda-Chan posted on Facebook how she pleaded to the admitting personnel of Butuan Doctors Hospital<\/strong> to have her critically-ill child admitted, but to no avail.<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jannary Chan or \u201cYanna<\/strong>,\u201d 10, (shown above) passed away on July 16 at around 3 a.m. from congestive heart failure.<\/p>\n

Emergency situation<\/p>\n

Chan said Yanna had congenital heart disease since she was six months old. She was also diagnosed early this year with diabetes and a kidney problem.<\/p>\n

She said they brought Yanna to the San Francisco Doctors Hospital in San Francisco, Agusan del Sur, on July 13 because she was ill. On July 15, however, Chan said they decided to transfer the girl to the better-equipped Butuan Doctors Hospital in Butuan City, Agusan del Norte, due to \u2018\u2018her emergency situation and critical condition.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Onboard an ambulance, Chan said they travelled more than an hour to reach Butuan City, the regional center of the Caraga region in Mindanao.<\/p>\n

Two nurses from the San Francisco Doctors Hospital accompanied Yanna and her parents, bringing with them complete medical certificate and referral.<\/p>\n

No full deposit, no entry<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n

But upon arrival at the Butuan Doctors Hospital, Chan said the hospital staff refused to admit her child because they could not pay the full deposit of P30,000 for the intensive care unit (ICU).<\/p>\n

She said they only had between P8,000 and P10,000 in cash but promised to pay the balance the following morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have money but we can\u2019t pay now,\u201d Chan recalled telling the hospital personnel, saying it was already 8 p.m. and could not get their cash from a money transfer service.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso my daughter has intubation and needs to be brought to ICU. She\u2019s been in the ambulance for hours, we travelled long distance, please it\u2019s really an emergency,\u201d she remembered pleading to the staff. But she said her pleas fell on deaf ears.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe money you have is far from the P30,000 needed for admission. There\u2019s no charity here. This is a private hospital,\u201d she quoted the staff as saying. \u201cWhat is your job by the way? Where would you get the money to pay the bills?\u201d the staff purportedly asked the distraught mother.<\/p>\n

The staff even argued that Yanna\u2019s condition was \u201cnot an emergency\u201d case. \u201cYou call it an emergency case when someone was ran over by a vehicle.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Resigned, Chan said they decided to bring their child to Davao City, about 305 kilometers from Butuan City, on board the same ambulance.<\/p>\n

But Yanna didn\u2019t make it to the hospital, succumbing to cardiac arrest while on the way to a Davao hospital, Chan said.<\/p>\n

The Law says otherwise <\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Republic Act 8344, hospitals are prohibited to demand deposits or advance payments before administration of medical treatment in emergency cases. Section 1 of the law states: \u201cIt shall be unlawful for any proprietor, president, director, manager or any other officer, and\/or medical practitioner or employee of a hospital or medical clinic to request, solicit, demand or accept any deposit or any other form of advance payment as a prerequisite for confinement or medical treatment of a patient in such hospital or medical clinic or to refuse to administer medical treatment and support as dictated by good practice of medicine to prevent death or permanent disability.\u201d \u2014 By <\/strong>Nestor Corrales<\/strong><\/a> (<\/strong>INQ.net<\/strong><\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Butuan City, Philippines\u2014A distraught mother took to social media to express her grief over the death of her 10-year-old daughter, who was denied admission in a Butuan City hospital because she could not pay the admission deposit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}