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2 women bicker at CHC
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Posted on Apr 26 2002
Two women who allegedly hurled threats against each other at the Commonwealth Health Center Wednesday each filed a police complaint, respectively claiming they were the victim.
CHC clinic manager and nurse Christine T. Pangelinan, 43, claimed Rita Takai Camacho, 62, stirred quite a disturbance at the hospital when the latter repeatedly called her a “murderer.”
But Camacho, who visited CHC for a check-up that day, countered Pangelinan’s complaint, saying the hospital nurse “treated her badly.”
Public Safety spokesperson Lt. Pete C. Muña learned from both the complainants’ issued statements that their intense bickering stemmed from a car accident that involved Camacho’s daughter and Pangelinan around two to three weeks ago.
A CHC nurse who attended to Camacho’s check-up told police that the patient was mad at Pangelinan because “she almost killed her daughter in a car accident and she feels like punching her…”
Pangelinan, in making her complaint, requested police to make a routine check at her residence for fear that Camacho’s family might hurt her.
The 43-year-old admitted she was “scared for her life,” Muña quoted Pangelinan as saying.
But in Camacho’s counter-complaint, the 62-year-old told police that Pangelinan allegedly started laughing hard as soon as the latter saw her enter the clinic that morning of April 24.
Pangelinan allegedly told her in Chamorro: “Come in and I’ll hit you,” Muña narrated from a police report.
But Muña clarified that the road accident, which was the root of the two women’s quarrel, yielded no serious injuries.
Police are assessing the complaint and counter-complaint filed by Pangelinan and Camacho. (Marian A. Maraya)
