Probe docs who took my son’s kidneys, mom asks CHR

The mother of 13-year-old Aldrinne Pineda, the boy who died after he was shot by a policeman in Manila, formally asked the Commission on Human Rights on Thursday to investigate the doctor who removed her son’s kidneys without her permission.

In an affidavit, Michelle Pineda said the doctors who operated on her son were Timonthy Jerome Venture and Bondal Sacar.

In an interview, Michelle identified Ventura as the admitting doctor and Sacar as the one who operated on her son at Tondo Medical Center for a gunshot wound in the stomach on March 2.

She said Sacar only told her about the removal of her son’s kidneys afterward.

“Don’t be surprised, the kidney of your son ruptured,” Michelle’s affidavit quoted Sacar as telling her after the procedure. Pineda died the next day.

According to CHR medico legal officer Joseph Jimenez, who conducted a reautopsy on Pineda, the kidneys were damaged not by the bullet but by external forces, such as shock waves.

One of the kidneys looked ruptured while the other was contused, he said.

While there was no doubt as to who shot the boy and why he was sent to the hospital, “how the doctors handled his case is the bigger picture here,” said Hilda Clave, the Pineda family’s lawyer. —AIE BALAGTAS SEE