COTABATO CITY – Another priest here who recently survived Covid-19 died Sunday, May 23, due to cardiac arrest.
Eliseo Mercado Jr., of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, died Sunday afternoon at the Cotabato Regional and Medical Center.
Mercado was confined at CRMC last May 8 and tested positive to SARS-CoV2, the virus that causes Covid-19, but have survived and was ready to go home when he suffered cardiac arrest at past 3 p.m. Sunday.
He is 72 years old and would have celebrated his 73rd birthday on May 29. He was born on 1948.
His colleagues in the Oblate congregation, whose pontifical base is in Rome, said there were signs he would recover but his heart stopped beating Sunday afternoon.
Mercado had a lingering heart condition. He also had a head injury due to an accident about five years ago and nearly died from blood clots around his brain that doctors removed via surgery.
Mercado, a known “pro-Moro priest,” was popular in Mindanao for having supported the crafting of the September 2, 1996 peace pact between the government and the Moro National Liberation Front.
He also supported the peace process between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front that paved the way for the setting up in 2019 of the MILF-led Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
Meanwhile, two priests belonging to the Diocesan Clergy of Cotabato, Loreto Sanoy and Rex Bacero, died one after another Friday, May 21, due to COVID-19 complications.
Sanoy was assistant parish priest in Cotabato City’s Rosary Heights Parish.
Bacero was president of the Notre Dame of Salaman College in the seaside Lebak town in Sultan Kudara
They
tested positive for coronavirus last week and, subsequently, got hospitalized
for breathing problems, fever, and body malaise. (CONTRIBUTOR/MINDANAO
EXPOSE’)
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