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Worker in sex scandal already out of embattled Cebu hospital


CEBU CITY, Philippines - The Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) worker accused of asking a woman to have sex with him in exchange for her infant’s birth certificate has left the hospital. The controversy came when the hospital is still reeling from the scandal over the video-taking of a January operation on a patient to remove a body spray canister from his anus. Ronalyn Caballes, 27, will have the chance to confront Jeffrey Polancos Saturday after Tinago, Cebu City officials summoned him to appear at the barangay hall. She hoped the meeting will serve as a wake-up call for Polancos, whom Dr. Emmanuel Gines, VSMMC media liaison officer, said has “officially" resigned effective April 15. Gines said Polancos was a contractual or a casual employee assigned in the hospital’s medical records section. “He (Polancos) is no longer part of this hospital. Whatever complaints against him, probably, he is on his own," Gines said. Eleodoro “Nonoy" Mongaya Jr. of the hospital’s media liaison committee, however, said his resignation will not stop the hospital from conducting an investigation on Polancos. Caballes, a single mother, told the Fuente Police Station earlier that Polancos ignored her request for a copy of her son’s certificate of live birth after following up on him several times. She gave birth to a baby boy last Jan. 16 and needed the document to have her child baptized. She saw Polancos three times, the last on the stairs leading to the operating room, when he asked her to have sex with him in the hospital bodega (stockroom). Caballes said Polancos instructed her to go ahead of him, as he will follow already bringing the certificate, which he would give only after the sexual contact. At this point, Caballes said, she grabbed her claim stub from the man and walked away shocked and angry. Polancos lives in Tinago and already received a written summon delivered by a barangay personnel directing him to attend today’s meeting with the complainant. - Sun.Star Cebu
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