Patients seek CT scan elsewhere

WHILE two were discharged, at least six of the estimated 50 persons injured in last week’s Barili town dump truck accident remain confined at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC).

Of that number, seven had to undergo a CT scan at a private hospital because the VSMMC’s scanner equipment has been  out of order since June 18.

“We are waiting for the supplier to provide the fuse,” radiologic technologist Dante Casio said.

“It’s a big inconvenience for me,” said Margarito Cereño, whose wife and daughter  are  confined in the hospital.

Daughter Ashley, two years old, is the youngest survivor of the crash.

Mother and child were brought to Cebu Doctors’ Hospital for a CT scan procedure.

Of  six patients still confined, four required surgery.  Three were operated on for bone fractures. /Correspondent Rhea Ruth V. Rosell