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(Eagle News) — The intensive care units for COVID-19 patients in St. Luke’s Medical Center have reached full capacity, the hospital said on Monday, July 20. In a statement, St. Luke’s said this applies to the hospitals in both Quezon City and Taguig. It added the critical care beds in the emergency room, which had been increased to twice the capacity to cater to COVID-19 patients, and the COVID-19 wards have also reached “full capacity,” […]
(Eagle News)– Former Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. failed to attend his first plunder case trial because he was confined at a hospital in Taguig City. Atty. Reody Anthony Balisi, one of the former senator’s lawyers, told the Sandiganbayan First Division during Thursday’s hearing that Revilla was confined at St. Lukes Medical Center as he was suffering from hypertension. Balisi–who presented to the antigraft court documents on the former senator’s condition—said the confinement took place while Revilla was visiting his ailing father. […]
Former president and Pampanga representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is expected to take uro-dynamic testing in the St. Luke’s Medical Center.
The Sandiganbayan 1st Division allowed former president and current Pampanga representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to St. Luke’s Medical Center to undergo a medical test which the Veterans’ Memorial Medical Center is not yet equipped to conduct.
Makati City Regional Trial Court Judge Elmo Alameda says Janet Lim Napoles should be confined in a government hospital and not at the St. Luke’s Medical Center, after Napoles’ personal and emotional appeal that she be allowed to undergo hospitalization and surgery due to a suspected myoma.
Some militant Congressmen are in favor of the hospitalization of alleged mastermind of the pork barrel scam Janet Lim Napoles, but reiterated that it should be in a government hospital and not in St. Luke’s Medical Center.
