Doctors at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) on Wednesday deferred the discharge from the hospital of former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, citing the need for further tests.
State prosecutors will move for the immediate transfer to a regular jail of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo unless the Sandiganabayan, which is trying the plunder case against her, allows Arroyo’s continued confinement at the state-owned Veterans Memorial Medical Center.
The complaint for plunder, graft and malversation was filed in the Office of the Ombudsman on July 12, 2011, against former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) General Manager Rosario Uriarte in connection with the alleged misuse of over P325 million in intelligence funds of the agency.
It’s back to Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) for embattled former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Lying on a bed and with an IV drip, Arroyo was served an arrest warrant issued Thursday afternoon by the Sandiganbayan on plunder charges.
Now it’s severe dehydration that former President and Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is suffering from.
The cardiologist of former President and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has apologized after being scolded by the Philippine Medical Association (PMA) for publicly saying that she needed immediate cervical spine surgery and that she should get it abroad because there were no specialists here who could handle the operation.
Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s allies in the House of Representatives are not giving up on her bid to seek medical treatment abroad.
Presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said Monday that the government would have to conduct an “independent verification” of Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s medical condition following what he said was a seeming divergence of opinions between the Makati Medical Center and Arroyo’s personal physician.
Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is not immediately jumping at the opportunity to get out of the country despite her doctor’s findings that her condition is life-threatening and that she needs to seek immediate medical attention abroad.
Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo does not need to travel abroad to get expert medical attention, an official of the Philippine Medical Association (PMA) said Saturday.
Makati Medical Center corporate communications head Marc Funelas on Saturday sent a text message to the Philippine Daily Inquirer saying that Dr. Roberto V. Anastacio’s remarks on the health condition of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in a press conference on Friday “were not MMC’s statement.”
Former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has been allowed to remain at the Veterans’ Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City as her doctors said she needed continuous treatment for various ailments.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Sunday said it was all right if former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo remained in detention at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) in Quezon City rather than in a regular jail.
