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MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine National Police said Monday it would investigate the death on Sunday of the sister and co-defendant of former Ozamiz City Councilor Ricardo “Ardot” Parojinog, who also died in detention two days earlier.
General Camilo Cascolan, head of the PNP, said that Melodina Parojinog-Malingin died at 7:45 am on Sunday in the intensive care unit of the Hilarion A. Ramiro Sr. Medical Center in the city of Ozamiz.
She succumbed to “cardiogenic shock secondary to intractable cardiac arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation to ventricular tachycardia secondary to massive gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to uremic gastropathy,” Cascolan said, citing the hospital’s findings on Malingin’s death.
His brother, who was found dead on Friday in his prison cell at the Ozamiz Police Station, died of “cardiopulmonary arrest secondary to cardiovascular disease and likely COVID-19,” said North Mindanao Police Chief Brig. . General Rolando Anduyan said on Friday.
Worsening of health
Cascolan said he did not understand the doctor’s findings about Malingin’s cause of death.
“I have to find out what these are,” he said. “We will investigate. We will evaluate and also ask the doctors who have the findings so they can give us an idea of what really happened. “
But jail officer 1 Christian Méndez, a prison nurse, testified to Malingin’s deteriorating health before he died.
“When we checked her vital signs, we discovered that her blood pressure was very low, prompting us to take her to the hospital for further medical evaluation,” she said, adding that Malingin had undergone a procedure in utero and was already bedridden. in bed. before she was returned to the hospital where she died.
Cascolan said that “Melodina had … been detained while awaiting trial for her drug case along with her husband Gaudencio when the police found eight kilograms of ‘shabu’ in her possession during a search of her home on December 6, 2017 “.
As for his brother, Ricardo, the head of the PNP said that his remains had been handed over to his family after a forensic examination.
The body was previously held at a funeral home in Ozamiz for testing for COVID-19.
Cascolan said the Misamis Occidental provincial police office would proceed with its investigation into Ricardo Parojinog’s death.
But according to Colonel Danildo Tumanda, provincial police chief, “the family of Ardot Parojinog did not request … an autopsy, … knowing very well the state of health of the deceased.”
According to Tumanda, family and friends of Parojinog were the ones who provided him with food such as crabs, shrimp and meatballs, according to “by [our] agreement [that] We must not give the suspect food or water ”.
‘Suspicious death’
In a statement, the detained opposition senator Leila de Lima said about Ricardo Parojinog’s death: “How convenient for the authorities that Parojinog dies there suddenly.”
“They know or should have known that the city of Ozamiz has become hostile territory for the now beleaguered Parojinog clan that the president threatened to ‘eliminate’.
In truth, this is another suspicious death of a targeted drug personality within a jail or prison, ”he said.
Two other Parojinog brothers, former Ozamiz mayor Reynaldo Parojinog and Octavio Parojinog Jr., were killed, along with Reynaldo’s wife, Susan, in a police raid on their home on July 30, 2017.
The Human Rights Commission said on Monday it would carry out its own investigation into the sudden deaths of the Parojinog brothers.
–With reports from Jigger J. Jerusalem, Divina Suson, Leila B. Salaverria and Krixia Subingsubing
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