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Ampatuan patriarch’s military hospital stay: the third time around
By Carolyn O. Arguillas, MindaNews.com
March 11, 2012

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 March) – Andal Ampatuan, Sr’s  confinement in a military hospital  in Quezon City since Friday is the third hospital stay for the former Maguindanao Governor since his arrest on December 5, 2009  as among the principal suspects in the massacre of 58 persons, 32 of them from the media

The 70-year old Ampatuan, who spent the first four months of his life as prisoner in an  airconditioned room inside a military hospital in Davao City, was rushed to the Taguig-Pateros District Hospital on Friday and later transferred to the intensive care unit of the pulmonology service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ V. Luna Memorial Medical Hospital in Quezon City, Interaksyon.com reported.

Ampatuan was rushed to the hospital from his detention cell in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig, after vomiting blood and suffering difficulty in breathing. Dr. Robert Abat, director of the Taguig hospital told GMA News that based on laboratory tests and X-Ray, the patient had “pneumonia and pulmonary congestion.”

Col. Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos, chief of the AFP Public Affairs Office was quoted by philstar.com as having said Ampatuan was diagnosed by military doctors as suffering from “chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic alcoholic liver disease.”

GMA News reported his lawyers filed a motion in court to allow him to stay in the hospital and that the court would hear the motion on Monday.

Ampatuan spent the first 163 days of his detention  in Davao City hospitals: two days at the city’s premier health facility, the Davao Doctors Hospital, and four months and ten days at the seaside Camp Panacan Station Hospital of the Eastern Mindanao Command for various ailments, according to the seven page medical bulletin from December 7, 2009 to January 3, 2010  released by the EastMinCom.

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