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HEALING HANDS --- Dr.Shahid “Doc Jaja” M. Sinolinding and a patient during
one of his free ophthalmic consultations.
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COTABATO CITY --- Dr. Shahid M. Sinolinding, fondly called as
"Doc Jaja," is known to many as the “ophthalmologist of the people.”
He started serving Mindanao, particularly the
poor, troubled, and isolated places where no one dared to serve since 2010
after finishing his ophthalmology residency training at the Southern Philippines
Medical Center in Davao City.
Prior to his death, he visited the island-municipality
of Pangutaranin Sulu and Sibuto of Tawi-tawi, the Abu Sayyaf Group-influenced
towns of Sulu, and Lamitan in Basilan rendering free ophthalmic consultations
and surgeries.
He is the youngest of the siblings, father of
three, a certified philanthropist, and a friend to all people.
Doc Jajawas born on December 2, 1979 at Arakan
in North Cotabato where most of his siblings spent their younger days, while
his father Dr. Kadil P. Sinolinding, Sr. served as the acting president of the
Cotabato Foundation College of Science and Technology (CFCST).
He was a Physical Therapy Licensure Examination
Board topper in 2001 and finished his medical degree at the Xavier University
Cagayan de Oro in 2005 with outstanding performance.
Serving the poor people hadsince been his
passion by constantly participating in medical outreach activities with other
doctors just to reach more communities.
Behind the scene situation
Back in August 2016, his elder brother, Prof.
Harris Sinolinding, a faculty of CFCST, was ambushed on his way to his class
but luckily survived unscathed. His car sustained four bullet holes from gunmen
riding-in-tandem.
In 2013, Dr. Delfin Moreno, the vice
president for land development, was murdered after leading a protest rally denouncing
the alleged school's corrupt practices.
A year after, school administrator Cedric
Mantawil was seriously wounded but survived the ambush while driving his car.
It was linked to a widely known rift between
the protesters, where his brother belongs, and the school administration
riddled with endless accusations of corruption, drug abuse, and mismanagement
of school funds.
The protest action against the school, headed
by President Samson Molao, claimed three deaths (Dr. Delfin Moreno, farmer
leader Tatay Wilerme Agorde, and student leader Rey Rabadon).Others got injured,
all related to shootings.There were also instances of grenade throwing and
other forms of violence.
The family believes that the murder of Doc
Jaja is connected to the CFCST row, making the death list to four. The PNP
Cotabato Province and National Bureau of Investigation-12 seem at a loss as to
the progress of their own versions of investigation.
At the crime
The failure of the CCTV DVR to retain
footages of the suspects and the events surrounding the crime scene raised
serious questions of "inside job" and the Cotabato City Police
Office’s (CCPO) mediocre handling of the case simply shows the strong influence
of the people behind his murder using money, organizational influence, and the
drugs.
Doc Jaja was shot while examining his 10
charity patients preparing for a day long surgeries. Infront of around 30
credible witnesses, plus a fully functional CCTV of the facility, three guards
on duty, and a personal escort of Doc Jaja, the CCPO similarly remains stagnant
in their investigation.
The family and fellow health workers cry for
justice for the endless crime committed against doctors, health workers, and
educators of Cotabato and Mindanao.
Failure to get Prof. Harris “landed on my
youngest brother Doc Jaja being the easiest target among us.”
(DR. KADIL JOJO M.
SINOLINDING, JR, DPBO, SECRETARY OF HEALTH-ARMM / MINDANAO EXPOSE’)
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