Napoles to undergo surgery Tuesday at Ospital ng Makati | Inquirer News

Napoles to undergo surgery Tuesday at Ospital ng Makati

Janet Lim-Napoles. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines — Janet Lim Napoles, the alleged brains behind the pork barrel scam, is scheduled to undergo a surgery on Tuesday evening, almost three weeks after she was brought to the Ospital ng Makati.

Napoles’ lawyer Faye Singson said in a phone interview that Napoles informed her during an earlier visit at the hospital that the surgical operation to remove the cyst in her uterus was set on Tuesday evening.

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“She told me that the entire team is ready. I can surmise that the surgery to be done was based on the results of the biopsy procedure performed on her,” Singson said.

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Napoles has been confined at the local government-run Ospital ng Makati since March 31 after the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 150 issued a ruling allowing her to seek treatment for her uterine cyst but only if it would be done at the local government hospital in Makati.

Napoles earlier complained of profuse bleeding and abdominal pain, which according to doctors were symptoms of the tumor in her uterus.

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Earlier, officials of the Ospital ng Makati announced that Napoles would be confined for at least 26 days if there were no complications after the surgery.

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But the schedule of the surgery has been moved since Napoles had to undergo a biopsy procedure first.

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Two teams are attending to her medical needs and treatment—one composed of five doctors of the Ospital ng Makati and the other a team from St. Luke’s Medical Center tapped by Napoles.

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