The Daily Guardian
29 June 2007
By Jonathan Cabrera & Noel Cabobos
KALIBO, Aklan—A chief of district hospital here is in hot water for allegedly faking the result of his licensure examination which led him to head three district hospitals here since 2004.
Antonio Viray III, currently the chief of Ibajay District Hospital, remains elusive to the media since the issue came out.
Viray also headed the Malay District Hospital in Oct. 2004 to Sept. 2006 and Buruanga District Hospital from Sept. 2006 to March 2007.
Records obtained by The Daily Guardian show that Viray, who claimed to have passed the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) Board of Medicine Physician Licensure Examination taken in Aug. 2001, actually failed the said exam.
The exam result he submitted to the Office of the Human Resource Management Office (HRMO) of the Aklan Provincial Capitol was allegedly faked.
HRMO chief Ellen Tolentino said they were not able to verify Viray’s documents with the PRC ever since the latter was appointed by Gov. Carlito Marquez.
The Civil Service Commission has a standard requirement to all government agencies to first verify with the PRC the licenses of professionals submitted to their office.
FAKE RESULT
The issue hugged the limelight when a copy of Viray’s purported examination result was furnished The Daily Guardian and RMN-dyKR.
This paper and RMN-dyKR wrote the PRC requesting verification of Viray’s exam result.
In a certification issued by PRC records division chief Elma Francisco, she confirmed that the result submitted by Viray to the HRMO was fake.
Francisco said that based on the PRC records of the August 2001 Board of Medicine Physician Licensure Examination, Viray only got a 70.50 mark which means he failed the said exam.
RESIGNED
Gov. Marquez said there’s nothing to investigate Viray already told him he had resigned effective June 1.
But HRMO records show that Viray was on vacation leave from May 28 to June 15, this year.
The Daily Guardian tried but failed to reach Viray for comment.
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