Suspended ARMM governor requests medical check-up
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011SUSPENDED AUTONOMOUS Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) governor Zaldy Ampatuan asked the court last 5 July, 2011 to allow him to undergo a medical examination in a private hospital. The request came six days after a member of the Andal Ampatuan Sr. household staff testified that Andal Sr. was present at the meeting during which the November 23, 2009 massacre of 58 men and women including 32 journalists was planned.
Zaldy, through his legal counsel Redemberto Villanueva, filed a “Very Urgent Motion for Medical Examination” before the Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) stating that they “want him (Zaldy) to undergo an examination due to his fluctuating blood pressure and sugar level brought about perhaps by the changing weather.” The five-page motion stated that the suspended governor prefers to be examined and confined at St. Luke’s Global City.
A clinical summary allegedly written by a Reynaldo Romero, M.D. claims that the governor is suffering from “Type 2 Diabetes Poorly Controlled with Possible Retinopathy and Nephropathy.”
