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Bernardo Bambalan vs. Workmens Compensation Comm.

BERNARDO BAMBALAN, petitioner, vs. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION and UNIVERSAL TEXTILES MILLS, INC., respondents.

G.R. No. L-47209 | 1987-08-21

D E C I S I O N


PADILLA, J.:

The petitioner Bernardo Bambalan is an employee of the respondent Universal Textile Mills, Inc., since 2 May 1972. working six (6) days a week as a machine operator at the respondent company's plant in Baranka, Marikina, Metro Manila, earning a daily wage of P11.80. On 26 March 1975. he filed a claim for sickness benefits before the Workmen's Compensation Commission (WCC, for short) for an ailment called "Pyelonephritis (kidney) acute, and Bronchitis, acute," which he allegedly suffered in the course of his employment or which was aggravated by the nature of his employment. 1

The claim, docketed as RO4-WC...