Arroyo getting worse, doctors say

**Retz** · March 12th, 2014 01:40 PM

Arroyo getting worse, doctors say

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MANILA, Philippines—The health condition of former President and Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo continues to deteriorate because of recurrent dysphagia, or difficulty in swallowing solid food, her doctors said.

In a March 5 medical update, Arroyo’s doctors at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) reported that the detained former leader continues to lose weight because of poor appetite.

The medical bulletin, signed by Dr. Martha Nucum, the chief of the VMMC’s Medical Professional Staff who heads Arroyo’s medical team, was submitted last Monday to the Sandiganbayan 1st Division by defense lawyer Modesto Ticman.

Arroyo has been confined at the VMMC where she has been on hospital arrest on plunder charges following three major cervical spine operations at the St. Luke’s Medical Center in October 2011.

Her present diagnosis is “cervical spondylotic radiculopathy, degenerative lumbar spine disease, and postcervical spine decompression with instrumentation.”

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**shibby75** · March 12th, 2014 02:43 PM

Naku, wag naman. Sana magtagal pa sya sa paghihirap nya.

**niky** · March 12th, 2014 03:36 PM

Justice delayed.

How many years has she been in jail, already, and with no resolution or true movement to her trial?

Ano ba yan, tatabunan lang ng tatabunan ng bagong issue, so they can simply hold her indefinitely against a trial they might possibly lose?

Complete BS. It's not a victory without a conviction.

**falken** · March 12th, 2014 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by niky

Justice delayed.

How many years has she been in jail, already, and with no resolution or true movement to her trial?

Ano ba yan, tatabunan lang ng tatabunan ng bagong issue, so they can simply hold her indefinitely against a trial they might possibly lose?

Complete BS. It's not a victory without a conviction.

Justice in this country is a big cruel joke.

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**_Qwerty_** · March 12th, 2014 05:47 PM

she has never been in jail.. puro hospital arrest lang..

**Monseratto** · March 12th, 2014 07:22 PM

hehehe...

**chua_riwap** · March 12th, 2014 09:53 PM

getting worse?

pero gusto nya mag celebrate bday nya sa pampanga. getting worse ha.

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**CLAVEL3699** · March 13th, 2014 01:38 PM

hindi pa sinusundo kasi natatakot si taning na mawala sya sa trono nya.

**ZENMasterTYL** · March 13th, 2014 05:50 PM

baka si lambino ang nag diagnose

**macsd** · March 14th, 2014 10:12 PM

Useless medical bulletin. Hope next time they would come up with a medical bulletin, should be something meaningful like,
she is fit to go to jail. How the heck her health is deteriorating when she is requesting to have her bday party in Pmapanga.
Madami daw aattend that veterans cannot accommodate the entire guest.