A GROUP OF FILIPINO medical staff could face the sack, after videoing a procedure to remove a can of deodorant from a male patient's backside, and then posting it on YouTube.

The offending video, which showed medical personnel from the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City, south of Manila, holding their cell phones and pointing them at the patient, laughing and jeering, while a doctor removed the canister from the man's behind. The video appeared to have fallen through the cracks, spending several weeks online, before, like the canister of body spray, it too was removed.

Philippine Health Undersecretary, Alexander Padilla, told Reuters that the incident was under investigation and that “if true, the staff concerned should of course be made answerable to (the) full extent for violating the patient's right to privacy and confidentiality". This could mean that the staff involved could be stripped of their medical licences and have their collective bottoms kicked.

The hospital's media liaison officer, Emmanuel Gines, told M&G news that they would apologise to the 39 year old man. The victim, a florist, decided to come forward and tell the media his story, after people who saw the video thought it was a hoax.

Apparently, the incident occurred after a drunken misunderstanding with a male prostitute backfired in a very real way. µ

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