By Leilanie G. Adriano
Staff reporter
Laoag
City—An employee at the Ilocos Norte
Provincial Accounting Office collapsed on September 2 after she was apparently
scolded by her immediate supervisor, acting provincial accounting officer Eden
Battulayan.
Fifty six year-old Emilia
Natividad Medina went hysterical inside the office of Human Resources and
Management Officer Sonia Siazon at about 1:30 p.m. and fainted on the floor.
First aid team from the Public Safety department who responded immediately
later on brought Ms. Medina to the provincial hospital for medical check-up.
Minutes later, Ms. Battulayan
admitted she talked to Ms. Medina and reminded her of her duties including an
urgent processing of a document needed for a team building event of Capitol
department heads on September 4-5.
According to Ms. Battulayan,
she has signed the cash advance voucher for the payment of travel of speakers
from Ateneo since Sept. 1, but Ms. Medina has failed to release the document at
the Treasury office immediately.
In previous years, Ms. Battulayan
said she has observed many backlogs in Ms. Medina’s work so her latest
assignment was on receiving and releasing of documents.
For her part, Ms. Medina
complained about her multiple functions and that all the blames are directed at
her.
In view of this, Ms. Siazon
said Ms. Medina, who has been a permanent employee at the Capitol for 19 years now
may opt to retire from service if she no longer wishes to stay at the
accounting department or she may seek a re-assignment.
As of the moment, Ms. Battulayan
said all of Ms. Medina’s jobs were already assigned to other employees at the accounting
office so as not to delay any more government transactions.
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