Family of slain Iloilo doctor seeks justice one year after

ILOILO CITY — The family of slain rural physician Dreyfuss Perlas is still seeking justice a year after he was gunned down.

“We are losing hope. There has been no indication that the suspected gunman will be arrested,” Dreyfuss’ father, Dennis Perlas, told the INQUIRER on Wednesday.

Dennis, municipal councilor of Batan town in Aklan, appealed to law enforcement agencies and the government to work harder in finding and arresting his son’s killer and those behind murder.

“The (suspected killers of murdered overseas Filipino worker Joanna Demafelis) have already been arrested. But here in our country the police have not arrested the killer of my son after one year,” Dennis said.

A gunman shot dead Dreyfuss on March 1, 2017 in Kapatagan town in Lanao del Norte.

Dreyfuss, 31, died from a gunshot wound in the back that pierced his heart.

He served as municipal health officer of Sapad town in the same province.

His death provoked an outcry as he was one of the few volunteer doctors who opted to stay in his area of assignment after his contract under the government’s Doctors to the Barrios program ended. /lb