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Wednesday, January 12, 2005
3 Cebu City jail inmates dead in 2 days
By Mia E. Abellana
CEBU CITY -- Another inmate died in the hospital last Monday, a day after two inmates from the Bagong Buhay Rehabilitation Center (BBRC) died reportedly of epileptic seizures and hemorrhagic pancreatitis.
Jonga Wong Olivar, 29, was rushed to the Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC) through the Emergency Rescue Unit Foundation because of "vomiting and difficulty in breathing" at 8:55 p.m.
Dr. Novelyn Moreno declared him dead at 12:45 a.m. Tuesday inside the intensive care unit (ICU).
Dr. Caesarianette Gutierrez said Olivar died of a heart failure.
Cause of death was listed as cardiogenic shock, secondary to congestive heart failure, secondary to dilated cardiomyopathy.
According to BBRC assistant spokesperson JO1 Dennis Aliño, Olivar was confined in the jail's infirmary last month after he noticed swelling in different parts of his body.
When he began vomiting Monday night, nurse JO1 Jasmin Rivera decided to bring him to the hospital.
Olivar's mother Vilma stayed by her son's side and saw him last.
Olivar, a resident of Unit 3 Carbon Market in Barangay Ermita, was committed to the BBRC last Aug. 22, 2004 for robbery.
Last Sunday, inmates Marjun Mabia and Jerome Camacho were brought to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center.
BBRC Warden Chief Inspector Teofilo Labating Jr. doubted that an overdose of shabu caused their deaths.
Mabia apparently had epilepsy and Camacho succumbed to hemorrhagic pancreatitis.
Aliño said that no autopsy has been conducted on the three yet, without consent from the families.
A judge called attention to a series of deaths in the city jail last year, amid reports that drug abuse, not just poor health and limited access to health care, was killing the inmates.
(January 12, 2005 issue)
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