By
Vir B. Lumicao
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| Penaflor marks her ballot in a cozy room reserved for voters with disabilities |
Forty-nine year old cancer
survivor Flordeliza Penaflor made her way to the Bayanihan Centre in Kennedy
Town at 3:30pm on May 13, less than three hours before the month-long overseas
voting in Hong Kong ended.
The emaciated breast cancer
victim was one of the more than 1,700 last-minute voters who flocked to the voting
center to get their voices heard through their ballot.
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Penaflor and about a dozen elderly people, persons with
disabilities and others who could not climb the flight of stairs to the polling
precincts had taken advantage of the privilege to cast their votes in the cozy
waiting room of Bayanihan’s administrative office.
Another beneficiary of the
special arrangement was a 56-year-old woman whose legs could hardly carry her
weight up the first flight of stairs of the voting center.
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They were all there to choose 12
senators and one party-list whose nominees could sit in the House of
Representatives if they win enough votes.
Bayanihan administrator Tess Ubamos and the center’s
volunteers took turns ushering each physically challenged voter to the waiting
room, then contacted the election secretariat so they could be assisted.
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In less than 10 minutes, a member
of the voter’s designated Special Board of Election inspectors would come down
to the waiting room with a light blue folder containing the voter’s ballot. In
another 5 or 10 minutes, the voting was over.
The special arrangement was a big
relief for Penaflor, a native of Llanera, Nueva Ecija, who had undergone
mastectomy on her left breast in Tseung Kwan O Hospital in March 2017 and
completed her chemotherapy sessions in December last year.
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The childless widow said she was
still too weak to climb stairs, as she spent six days in hospital starting last
Black Saturday because of a bout of pneumonia that sparked fears cancer cells
had spread to her bronchial area. She had to undergo tests to check this, and
is still awaiting the results.
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Penaflor, who is on her eighth year with her British
employer, initially feared she would have to shoulder the cost of her treatment
as she had no medical insurance, and knew this was not part of her employer’s obligation
to her.
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But on the day she was scheduled
for an operation, her employer told her she would bear the cost of the
treatment.
Penaflor said she will renew her
contract, which falls due this year, so that she can continue with her
medication.
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