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Aguirre vs. Workmen's Compensation Commission

HONORATA M. AGUIRRE, petitioner, vs. THE HONORABLE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION and THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES (Division of Leyte, Bureau of Public Schools, DEC), respondents.

G.R. No. L-44115 | 1978-11-17

D E C I S I O N

MUá'OZ PALMA, J:

Honorata M. Aguirre was a permanent elementary grade school teacher of the Bureau of Public Schools at Tacloban City who on March 5, 1975, filed a "Notice of injury or sickness and claim for compensation" with the Workmen's Compensation Unit, Regional Office No. 9, Tacloban City. 1 In her claim, Honorata M. Aguirre alleged that on December 13, 1974, she was forced to stop teaching due to an illness which was diagnosed by Dr. Salvador R. Abad, Jr. as "meningo-encephalitis, aseptic, acute and anemia moderate." Because of her ailments she was confined at the Bethany Hospital, Tacloban City from December 25,...