“Parang Hayop na Tinapon sa Morgue ang Tatay Namin”

                    Corpse Brod of a Mayor, Prominent Doc

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

 LINGAYEN – “Parang hayop lang na tinapon sa morgue ang tatay namin!” cried by the daughter of the deceased how the officials of the provincial government’s run hospital here treated the remains of her father.

                    The remains of Edgardo Arenas at the morgue of the Community Hospital in Lingayen, Pangasinan.

According to Angelie Arenas, the daughter of the late Edgardo Arenas,70, that she, her mother and the brothers of her father Labrador Mayor Dominador V. Arenas and Dagupan City’s based Specialist Group Hospital & Trauma Center controlling owner Doctor Carlito Arenas were up in arms on the “inhumane” treatment of the officers of the community hospital here on how they dealt with the cadaver that was thrown like a dead animal on the morgue’s table.

“My father was over ran by a cargo truck full of bamboo at 5 Pm and was brought and pronounced dead at the community hospital. The secretary of Barangay Polong, Bugallon informed us on the death of my father the following day. When we were at the morgue we saw our father lying prostrate with his arms stiffly raised, his head facing south because the neck was broken, some intestines bellied out, and he was shrouded with smelly blood that already dried up”.

 The smarting medical doctor daughter of Dr. Arenas lamented how the lousy government hospital treated her uncle.

“They should have cleaned him up and covered him with sheet”. Even dead dogs were even covered by something,” she cited.

 Resolution to file a criminal cases of Reckless Imprudence Resulting in Homicide and Damage to Property was made by the provincial prosecutor based here.

After evaluating the criminal complaint of Deborah, the wife of the victim, Prosecutor Magin Nino Orlino said that respondent Arnel L. Albendo, driver of the Fuso Fighter Cargo Truck, was being detained at the Bugallon Police Station since April 12, 2019.

Prosecutor Orlino cited April 12, 2019 as the fateful day when the truck driven by Abendo bumped Arenas from behind who was driving an SYM motorcycle bound to Labrador town.

“Arenas lost control of his vehicle when he fell on the pavement. The truck overran his prostrate body that cause his tragic death,” Orlino wrote on the resolution where he cited that the offender should pay a bail of Fifty Thousand Pesos for his temporary liberty.

                             WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS OF ARENAS BELOW