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GAMES and Amusements Board (GAB) Chairman “Abraham” Mitra spoke in an exclusive interview with The Manila Times by phone on Friday after meeting with the Department of Health (DoH), the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) and the Higher Education Commission. (CHED) on the resulting report on the University of Sto. The alleged violations of the Tomas (UST) quarantine protocols.
Mitra revealed that the investigation report will be sent to the Department of Justice (DoJ) on Monday. The investigation report will be filed in accordance with the joint administrative order protocols that the GAB, DoH and PSC wrote for the performance of professional and non-professional sports during quarantine as mandated by the Interagency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases .
“We have decided to send our report to the Department of Justice [in order] they can address the problem, ”he said, alluding to possible penalties for UST administrators, basketball players and head coach Aldin Ayo, who installed the unauthorized“ Sorsogon bubble, ”a supposedly disinfected and isolated training area. in Capuy, Sorsogon since mid-June.
“’Yun talaga ang kailangan. Inutusan lang kami for tumulong dito (That’s really all it takes. We were commissioned to help here). So we don’t want to go overboard. We just have to be sure, ”Mitra explained, adding that Asia’s oldest university, which is home to the Growling Tigers, has a mandate to suspend all training for now.
The National University (NU) was also instructed to submit a written report on its women’s volleyball team that was locked up inside Inspire Sports Academy, NU’s campus in Calamba, Laguna, last May for possible protocol violations, the president said. by GAB.
In meeting with Mitra, DoH Representative Rodley Carza, PSC National Training Director Marc Velasco, CHED President Prospero de Vera, and CHED Executive Director Cindy Jaro on Tuesday, NU reiterated the report that its athletic director, Oti Camangian, delivered to government officials, over 42 students. -Athletes who were still stranded inside their Sampaloc campus.
Meanwhile, Mitra also spoke about the possibility of college varsity teams practicing with their professional counterparts at the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) and the Philippine Football League (PFL), saying, “Pros for sharing best practices [in order that] fans can adopt “.
He will meet with the PBA, PFL and the Pilipinas 3 × 3 professional league and ask them to present the training methods Monday afternoon at a joint press conference with CHED so that “it can serve as a reference for fans of emulate. I’m sure the professionals are willing to share what they are doing because, after all, we are only in one industry. And they all care about each other. “
