Emergency call saves KPH doctor from stray bullet

Tabuk City, Kalinga – If it was not for the call from the emergency room, a pediatrician at the Kalinga Provincial Hospital might have been a victim of a stray bullet on the New Year celebration.

In a Facebook post, KPH Officer-in-Charge, Dr. Rey Aranca informed that a pediatrician who was on duty on New Year’s Eve discovered a hole in the ceiling and a slug on the floor in the doctor’s room.

Said doctor found the stray bullet and punctured ceiling when he got back to the doctor’s space after being summoned to the emergency room.

Aranca pointed out that if it was not for that call from the ER, things could have been worse.

“Obviously the aforementioned is from a[n] indiscriminate firing. Hope the person who had fired that gun would think first the next time he will do this crazy thing,” he said, adding that the person who indiscriminately fired his gun could have killed a person attending to people’s medical needs at the time.

Apart from the pediatrician, a husband and his pregnant wife were likewise spared from being injured by a stray bullet in Magsaysay in the early hours of January 1.

According to the couple, they went to their sibling’s house to celebrate New Year’s Eve, but when they returned home, they were welcomed by a broken kitchen window and an empty shell.

They concluded that had they not gone out of their house, they would have been hit by the stray bullet.

According to the Philippine National Police on Tuesday, January 2, 12 people were reported to have been injured by stray bullets in the country during the Christmas and New Year festivities in 2023.

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