In the complaint affidavit dated October 5 executed by complainant Jean Jabagat, who was previously

confined at the hospital after undergoing a surgical procedure called thyroidectomy on April 21 last year,
she claimed that after her surgery, she was informed by her surgeon Dr. Henry Derla that she will be
discharged by April 23.

But before that, accused Longhay allegedly injected a wrong medicine to the complainant.

According to the findings of NBI Davao supervising agent Exzel Hernandez, it was stated that the
medicine Longhay injected on the complainant was allegedly made without conducting prior skin test.

It was in fact intended for another patient confined in the same room.

This was administered even as the complainant told Longhay she was advised by her doctor that she
doesn't need antibiotics.

As a result, Jabagat reportedly started to experience rapid heart palpitation, difficulty in breathing,
chilling, nervousness, and skin rashes started appearing but was not attended to by the nurse who had
allegedly left the patient to check her medical records.

Another doctor from the hospital arrived at the room and administered an anti-allergy drug and saved the
complainant from the situation.

The said doctor reportedly told the complainant that Longhay allegedly "admitted to her of being
negligent in injecting the wrong drugs out of haste because of the lack of nursing staff at the surgery
department that time.”

“Such negligence was rooted from and attributable to the negligent acts by the supervisors of nurse
Longhay, for not being predisposed and present to exercise their supervisory functions and to address the
shorthanded medical complement which caused their subordinates to falter and blunder in attending to the
medical needs of hospital patients," the NBI’s findings stated.

The NBI findings further stated that the hospital’s personnel who were allegedly involved in the incident
could be made to answer for the alleged medical negligence under the doctrine of "res ipsaloquitor,"
which means that "the injury [caused by the incident] in itself provides the proof of negligence."

The case filed against the respondents though are still to be resolved or is subject for a separate
investigation by a City Prosecutor.