Davao City allows 6 cadavers to be used in med school

DAVAO CITY — The Davao City Prosecutor’s Office has finally allowed the use of the remains of six Chinese-looking men who were killed in the New Year’s Eve raid on a shabu laboratory here for medical research and scientific studies.

The cadavers of the six slain foreigners have remained unclaimed at a local funeral parlor here some three months after the raid on a clandestine shabu laboratory in Barangay Dumoy.

The six were believed to be the chemists of the shabu laboratory that was allegedly established by big-time illegal drug financier Allan Sy, who is still at large.

Mayor Rodrigo Duterte earlier sought clearance from the prosecutor’s office for the remains of the six foreigners to be turned over to the Davao Medical School Foundation for study and research purposes.

City Prosecutor Raul Bendigo, in a letter to Duterte last March 22, stressed that his office has no objection to the planned use of the cadavers based on the implementing rules and regulations of the Code of Sanitation of the Philippines.

The city prosecutor, however, emphasized that before the cadavers could be turned over to the medical foundation, certain paper works have to be accomplished such as the issuance of the corresponding death certificates by a local health officer.

Authorities here are reportedly eyeing another shabu laboratory established in the city after the Dumoy facility was busted by anti-narcotics agents.

Duterte earlier hinted that a group of foreign drug financiers has teamed up with local counterparts in putting up another shabu laboratory.

But the mayor gave assurances that the group is being monitored and that the said facility will be destroyed.