LINGAYEN -- Six personnel of the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital (PPH) in San Carlos City are facing administrative charges for using spurious or face documents in their employment.

Aurora Bautista, a chief nurse at the hospital, was also charged administratively for allegedly consenting and allowing her son to perform the job of a nurse even if he is not a registered nurse.

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Provincial Legal Officer Geraldine Baniqued said the six personnel were a doctor and five nurses.

“As of now, those who are suspected to have submitted spurious documents are not working there anymore. Immediately after issuing the formal charge, we have simultaneously issued an order for these personnel to cease and desist from performing the functions of medical personnel,” she explained.

“The complaints that emanated from the PPH prompted the Human Resource and Management Office (HRMO) to verify the authenticity of the records which had been submitted relative to the qualification of the of some of these personnel. After further verification, it was found out that most of the documents submitted to the HRMO were spurious or falsified,” Baniqued said.

She said it was found out that the contractual nurses actually did not pass the Nurses Licensure Examination given by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).

“One very glaring case is that of a contractual nurse whose mother is also an employee inside the hospital. That is why the Investigating Committee on Administrative Cases also issued a formal charge against the mother of one of the nurses for falsification and dishonesty,” she remarked.

The charge sheet states: “As chief nurse, you allowed, consented and exerted undue influence, to the illegal and unlawful acts of your son, Darwin P. Bautista, of performing the functions and duties of a contractual nurse/casual in the provincial hospital, despite knowledge that the latter did not pass the December 2005 Nursing Licensure Examination and therefore, is not a qualified registered nurse.”

Bautista was charged for dishonesty, gross neglect of duty, misconduct and conduct prejudicial to the interest of public service. Darwin was charged for dishonesty.

Darwin started working as a volunteer at the PPH in February 2006. He became a contractual nurse from 2006 up to the discovery in 2009. The others started in 2006.

Baniqued clarified that the right to due process of all the accused were respected.