March 29, 2008, The Philippine Star, Baguio: I Saw My Baby's Head Roll on the Floor, by Artemio Dumlao, 

BAGUIO CITY, (STAR) Friday,– After three miscarriages, 22-year-old Amy Diaz, together with her 24-year-old husband, Bernabe, a gasoline attendant, was expecting a "gift" on Easter Sunday – their first-born to be christened Ayesa Bea Mae.

But on Sabado de Gloria (Black Saturday) they had to bury her after an incident in the delivery room of the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center Wednesday night left the baby headless.

"I saw my baby’s head roll on the floor," Amy recounted in the Iluko dialect.

She said her husband rushed her to the hospital before midnight after she began to suffer labor pains.

During her delivery, however, a certain Edward "forcibly pulled the head of my baby," she claimed, saying she saw it drop to the floor and roll.

According to Amy, doctors had to operate on her to remove her baby's headless body.

She said it would have easy to accept if her first-born was dead inside her womb prior to the delivery.

"We were told that our child suffered from an abnormality," she said.

But Amy disputed this, saying that an ultrasound and an ECG prior to the delivery showed that her baby was healthy.

The couple had reported the incident to the police, and the National Bureau of Investigation is conducting its own investigation.

"We will have to wait (for the results of the investigation)," Bernabe said in the dialect.

The STAR repeatedly tried to get a comment from the hospital's chief obstetrician-gynecologist, Teresita Agbanlog, but she apparently wanted to keep mum about the incident pending the results of the NBI probe.

"They told us it may take a month to finish (the investigation)," Bernabe said.

Meanwhile, Dr. Mary Jo Dulawan, Ifugao provincial health officer, denied that her son, Edward, a medical intern in the hospital, could have been the one tagged by Amy.

"He could not have been involved," she said, adding that Amy could have mistaken her son doing the procedure.

Dulawan said her son, as an intern in the pediatrics department, is physically present in the delivery room but only to take over the newborn after the obstetrician-gynecologists have done their job.