HEROISM. Angyl Faith Ababat is seen in this cropped video footage applying pressure to the wound at the neck of fruit vendor Bernadita Zamora on Jan. 30, 2023. Mayor Michael Rama on Tuesday (Feb. 7) said Ababat and her classmate Kristianne Joice Noelle Ona will receive the "Mayor's Award" during the Cebu City Charter Day celebration on Feb. 24, to recognize their courage in helping save a life. (Photo courtesy of the University of Cebu) CEBU CITY - After being awarded by the local police, the two nursing students here who rushed to the aid of a wounded woman will receive the "Mayor's Awards" during the Cebu City Charter celebration on Feb. 24, Mayor Michael Rama said on Tuesday. Rama said Angyl Faith Ababat and Kristianne Joice Noelle Ona, sophomores in the College of Nursing at the University of Cebu, will be recognized for their "courage" shown despite the danger of also getting injured. Netizens hailed Ababat and Ona's act of applying first
Content warning: The article mentions graphic violence. A second-year nursing student received praise online after she successfully saved a vendor's life.
CEBU CITY Commendations await a nursing student here for her ‘heroic act’ of saving a woman whose neck was slit by her live-in partner along a sidewalk last Monday, Jan. 30.
Photo via Calvin Cordova
City Councilor Rey Gealon has filed a resolution that seeks to commend Angyl Faith Ababat, a