The councilor claimed this was in reference to purported instances in which some CCMC employees allegedly victimized patients and their families into buying expensive medicines.
Malilong’s column tackled an “alleged anomaly that is supposedly happening in the Cebu City Medical Center. This, reportedly, was conveyed to him by a certain Edwin Veloso who bought his grandchild a few weeks ago to CCMC for an anti-tetanus shot after the child accidentally punctured himself with a needle.
However, the CCMC employee allegedly told them that he has his own personal stock which the child could have for P1,000+. Finding the price prohibitive, Veloso said they left the hospital and brought the child to their barangay health center where he finally got injected with a vaccine that they bought from a drug store for a little more than P100.