Accident victim seeks help for hospital bills

By Ramon Dacawi 

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet -- A victim of a vehicular accident has appealed for fund support  from Samaritans to sustain his medication and settle what he owed that enabled him to pay his hospital bills amounting to about P500,000.

The appeal was made by Peter Manganip, a 35-year old maintenance man at the Benguet State University here who is still recuperating from injuries he sustained when the motorcycle he was driving was dragged  by a passenger jeepney  last Feb. 4 along Lower Magsaysay Avenue, Baguio City, around 6 km from here..

In his report, police Supt. Evelio Degay, chief of the traffic management unit of Baguio police, said Manganip was on his way to La Trinidad when “the left side of the motorcycle allegedly  hooked into the right rear railing of a jeepney  that dragged him, together with his motorcycle in a distance of more or less twenty feet…”

 The jeepney driver, identified as Edward Cupido, 37, brought his vehicle to a halt when he noticed the workers of a tire shop shouting and pointing to the motorcycle behind being dragged, the police report said.

“When the jitney slowed down  to stop, the motorcycle was detached from the said jitney then fell down in front of the rear right tire of the jeepney.”

As a result, the motorcycle rider’s head was ran over by the jeepney.

The jeepney driver and some passengers rushed the victim to the Pines City Doctors Hospital where he was confined and operated on.

The diagnosis of the attending physician was “traumatic brain injury, epidural hemorrhage, temporarly with massive brain edema, neumocephalus, pneumothorax, multiple rib fracture, left posterior, with pulmonary contusion”.

 To be able to raise funds  for his recovery,  Manganip’s  wife, Karen, obtained a city permit to solicit support and asked that her appeal be published in the local papers so Samaritans can respond.

Manganip has been discharged from the hospital but does not recall when he was released from confinement.

People who can help may visit him at his residence at No. 44 Tricom Village, Pinsao Pilot Project, Baguio.

They can contact him through cell phone numbers 09104665619 and 09461543674.