QC court orders new medical exam on Ivler
A Quezon City court has ordered government doctors to conduct another medical examination on road rage suspect Jason Ivler to determine if he needs a reversal of a colostomy procedure he underwent in the past.
This developed as the defense pushed for the resolution of their new appeal for Ivler’s confinement in the event of another operation.
Judge Luisito Cortez of Regional Trial Court Branch 84 will also require the attending physician on record, Dr. Romeo Abary of Quirino Memorial Medical Center, (QMMC) to report on Ivler’s condition.
The hospital checkup at QMMC has been set on Monday, during which the accused will be subjected to a complete and thorough work-up including an ECG and blood chemistry tests.
Abary was Ivler’s doctor when he was confined last year for injuries he sustained after a shoot-out with law enforcers in January 2010. A doctor from the Philippine General Hospital, Dr. Hermogenes Monroy, is his current doctor of choice.
Cortez asked both the prosecution and the defense in court yesterday who would foot the bill for the surgery, if the motion is granted.
Ivler replied, “Me, your Honor.”
“Then it shouldn’t be a problem if the accused will pay. I can even require both doctors to perform the procedure,” the judge said.
The results of the medical examination will determine if there is a need to reverse the colostomy on Ivler to allow him to defecate normally.
The defense had manifested that Ivler preferred Monroy, but the prosecution pointed out that it was Abary who attended to Ivler in January 2010 at the QMMC, and had even testified in court.
Ivler is facing murder charges for the death of Renato Ebarle Jr. in a traffic altercation in November 2009.
After he was hurt in the shoot-out with lawmen while hiding in his mother’s house last year, he was confined at QMMC where he had a colostomy for injuries in his intestines.
The court ordered Ivler’s lawyers to submit Monroy’s credentials after the defense insisted that the PGH doctor should conduct the reversal.
“Since the doctors will be answerable to the court, the court has the discretion of determining the proficiency of experience of these doctors,” Cortez said.
