Husband of patient slams hospital for P11,000 charge

ANGELES CITY -- The husband of a dialysis patient at the Renal Care Unit (RCU) of the Rafael Lazatin Memorial Medical Center (RLMMC) slammed the hospital recently for charging his wife with an amount of P11,000.

Bonifacio Dumantay, husband of the patient and a resident of Barangay Anunas, appeared in a local radio show and shared his experience at RCU.

According to Dumantay, his wife’s attending physician, Dr. Ramon Suarez, asked him to prepare P11,000 for his wife’s dialysis treatment.

Dumantay said he was able to raise P10,000 with the help of relatives and friends and he informed Suarez about this. After which, his wife was brought in for treatment.

Suarez allegedly asked Dumantay’s son to give the P6,000 to him and instructed the latter to pay the remaining P4,000 at the hospital cashier.

Dumantay said his son was not given a receipt for the P6,000 that he paid to Suarez.

The receipt and charge slips issued to Dumantay lists the fees paid for his wife’s treatment, which includes P1,750 for the RCU dialysis treatment charges, P100 miscellaneous fee, P500 Professional Fee for the attending physician, P700 “emergency fee,” and an additional charge of P1,700 which is listed as “F8,” amounting to a total of P4,750.

Dumantay has issued a signed statement detailing the events concerning the dialysis treatment of his wife at the RCU.

The Rafael Lazatin Memorial Medical Center formerly Ospital Ning Angeles (ONA) is run by the administration of Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan.

Last November 21, 2012, the administration of Pamintuan, also earned flak for the controversial “emergency fee” being charged to RCU patients who were not able to secure a scheduled slot for dialysis treatment.

The said “emergency fee” is reportedly not paid at the hospital cashier but given directly to the nurses. Patients are supposedly given “charge slips” instead of official receipts. (Rey Navales)

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