Adelas dad buried once kin are released from quarantine
May 9, 2003 | 12:00am
ALCALA, Pangasinan "Please help us pray that they will be back here soonest."
Thus pleaded the family of Adela Catalon and her father, Mauricio, who both died of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), referring to other family members still in isolation at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) in Muntinlupa City.
Jean Catalon, Mauricios daughter-in-law, told The STAR in a phone interview that the old mans ashes would be buried beside Adelas as soon as his wife, Paulina, 71, and other family members are released from the RITM.
Mauricio, 73 (not 74 as earlier reported), died of SARS but was earlier diagnosed as cancer-stricken. Adela died last April 14 or barely nine days after she arrived from Toronto, Canada where she was a nursing assistant.
Adela went home to look for an oncologist for her ailing father, not knowing she was a carrier of the SARS virus.
According to Jean, Adelas sister, Anita, who is in Canada, would not come home to attend her fathers burial but requested that they wait for her mothers return before proceeding with the interment.
Besides Paulina, those still in isolation at the RITM are Jeans husband, Ricardo, barangay captain of Vacante here; the eldest of their eight children and a couple who took care of their two-year-old child; and a brother-in-law who had served as Adelas driver.
"We always pray that we could be together (again) soon," Jean said.
During President Arroyos visit here last May 2 to officially declare Barangay Vacante as SARS-free, Department of Health officials reportedly told the Catalons that their relatives at the RITM might be home in 10 days.
Mauricios ashes were placed in an empty biscuit can, sealed and wrapped in a pink cloth and three layers of masking tape and finally, a white cloth.
Jean said they started praying the novena last Wednesday night. Mauricios ashes arrived past noon that day.
"At least, its better now because we still have time to hold a wake unlike in Adelas case where her remains were brought immediately to the cemetery," she said.
Thus pleaded the family of Adela Catalon and her father, Mauricio, who both died of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), referring to other family members still in isolation at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) in Muntinlupa City.
Jean Catalon, Mauricios daughter-in-law, told The STAR in a phone interview that the old mans ashes would be buried beside Adelas as soon as his wife, Paulina, 71, and other family members are released from the RITM.
Mauricio, 73 (not 74 as earlier reported), died of SARS but was earlier diagnosed as cancer-stricken. Adela died last April 14 or barely nine days after she arrived from Toronto, Canada where she was a nursing assistant.
Adela went home to look for an oncologist for her ailing father, not knowing she was a carrier of the SARS virus.
According to Jean, Adelas sister, Anita, who is in Canada, would not come home to attend her fathers burial but requested that they wait for her mothers return before proceeding with the interment.
Besides Paulina, those still in isolation at the RITM are Jeans husband, Ricardo, barangay captain of Vacante here; the eldest of their eight children and a couple who took care of their two-year-old child; and a brother-in-law who had served as Adelas driver.
"We always pray that we could be together (again) soon," Jean said.
During President Arroyos visit here last May 2 to officially declare Barangay Vacante as SARS-free, Department of Health officials reportedly told the Catalons that their relatives at the RITM might be home in 10 days.
Mauricios ashes were placed in an empty biscuit can, sealed and wrapped in a pink cloth and three layers of masking tape and finally, a white cloth.
Jean said they started praying the novena last Wednesday night. Mauricios ashes arrived past noon that day.
"At least, its better now because we still have time to hold a wake unlike in Adelas case where her remains were brought immediately to the cemetery," she said.
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