OVERSHADOWED by all the accolades and incentives for double gold medalist Carlos Yulo and bronze medalists Nesthy Petecio and Aira Villegas was St. Luke’s Medical Center-Global City’s noble gesture to one of the Paris Olympians.
Renowned sports medicine expert Dr. Jose Raul Canlas and St. Luke’s Medical Center-Global City worked on fencer Samantha Catantan’s ruptured left anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) last Friday — all for free.
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“It’s an interesting story,” said Canlas, a member of the FIBA and head of the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) medical committee and director of the hospital’s Institute of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
“I did the major surgery on Sam’s knees and when the administration of St. Luke’s found out that she’s an Olympian, all her hospital bills were waived.”
POC president Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino thanked St. Luke’s Medical Center-Global City dfor its noble contribution to Philippine sports.
Catantan, 22, thanked St. Luke’s Medical Center-Global City headed by its CEO and president Dennis Serrano.
Despite the bad knee, Catantan, the first Filipina fencer to qualify in the Olympics, made Philippine fencing history by hurdling the round-of-64 to advance into the second round in Paris.
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