Funeral parlor workers
squabble over corpse
FROM: BOHOL SUNDAY POST, APRIL 27, 2008 ISSUE
It was a tug-of-war unlike any other.
Workers from two funeral parlors in the city engaged in a tug-of-war over a dead person which deteriorated into a rift that carried them all the way to the Tagbilaran PNP station.
The incident happened about 9:30 pm last April 22 at the Governor Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital .
According to initial reports, the conflict ensued between workers of Funeraria Gomez and Holy Name Funeral Homes.
The workers of the two funeral parlors, which happened to be just located several meters away from each other, were fighting over who would be able to bring the dead person that was due to be embalmed.
Tagbilaran police sources revealed that two workers of Funeraria Gomez were the first ones who went to PNP station to register their complaint.
They identified themselves as Lyndon Oronan and Joel Billy Molina. The two claimed that the workers from the rival funeral parlor threatened to kill them.
The two even alleged that their competitors even showed them a firearm.
This was however denied by three workers of the Holy Name Funeral Homes who also went to the Tagbilaran PNP.
The three gave their names as Antonio Mansueto, Edgar Oponda and Marvin Marimon.
According to their account, they were the ones who were manhandled by the workers from the rival establishment.
Reacting to the incident, Councilor Leonides Borja said he will summon hospital personnel to create guidelines that will govern the conduct of an orderly release of dead bodies.
Borja, who chairs the Sangguniang Panlungsod committee on health, said he will also invite the management of funeral parlors to prevent a repetition of the said incident.
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