DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Dec. 19, 2012) – Six Filipino doctors were critically injured following a road accident on their way to aid typhoon victims in Davao Oriental province in the southern Philippines, security officials said Wednesday.
Officials said the physicians, who are members of the Maguindanao Provincial Health Office, were in a vehicle when their driver avoided a collision with a motorcycle and slammed into a tree in Baganga town late Tuesday.
Lt. Col. Lyndon Paniza, a spokesman for the 10th Infantry Division, said those injured – Doctors Nic Cantiro, Almatin Dimaucom, Nor-ayin Salic, Junnah Mangacy, Grace Espinosa, Taher Salik, and driver Tuy Pangilan – were rushed to the Cateel District Hospital and later transferred to Southern Philippines Medical Center in Davao City.
“They are now being treated at SPMC for evaluation and further medication. Dr. Salik is now (in) stable (condition) while the rest are in critical condition,” he told the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.
No other details were made available by the military about the victims, who were part of a volunteer medical team sent by Maguindanao province to help victims of deadly typhoon Bopha which struck Compostela Valley and Davao region.
More than 1,000 people were killed and tens of thousands left homeless by the typhoon that hit the Philippines on December 4. (Mindanao Examiner)
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