The coronavirus pandemic has infected millions of people and affected the lives of billions of people around the world. While many of us are holed up in our homes, a grieving father endured a five-kilometer walk carrying his son’s body.
Due to lack of public transportation, Rodel Canas, 23, walked from Pasig to Makati to bring home his 32-day-old baby and give him a proper burial.
According to a Daily Tribune report, Canas rushed his pregnant wife to Rizal Medical Center in Pasig City last March 11 and prematurely gave birth to their child.
The baby was diagnosed with congenital heart disease and was confined to the hospital for over a month before he died due to hospital-acquired pneumonia resulting from sepsis.
Canas, who works as a construction worker, received the body of the infant placed in a box, wrapped with packaging tape from the staff of the hospital.
Before leaving the hospital, he was presented a bill amounting P245,000 for the confinement of his deceased baby.
He sought the help of Thelma Ramirez, barangay chairman of East Rembo, who gave him a certificate of indigency to help with the hospital bill he has to settle yet.
Ramirez then help arranged the burial of the baby, which Canas wanted to bury at a vacant lot inside the compound they are renting.
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