FORMER President and Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has been diagnosed with two new health conditions—hypertension and nerve deterioration—and is even looking at a third which needs immediate medical verification.
Arroyo said in a television interview her doctors have been nagging her to undergo a liver check-up even when she was still under hospital arrest at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City.
Although she said she was well taken care of at the VMMC, she said her health condition continued to deteriorate.
“Now, I wake up with a lot of pain again so when I had my check-up in St. Luke’s, they said there is some deterioration. Even when I was in Veterans, my doctor from St. Luke’s said that it’s time for me to have my liver checked so I’ll be having it sometime next week,” she said in an interview with the ABS-CBN network.
She said she may seek medical attention abroad for a second opinion on her ailments and to find a permanent medical solution.
“How shall I put it? I was better before detention than after detention, to say the least,” she said.
Her check-up after her release from hospital arrest showed she now had high blood pressure and nerve deterioration.
“The doctors took really very good care of me but, notwithstanding that, there are some new conditions that I am now suffering which I wasn’t suffering before. Hypertension and nerve deterioration. Those two things are new conditions that were dormant but maybe get exacerbated,” she said.
“When I first entered Veterans Memorial hospital, I couldn’t even raise my hand up but then the therapist did a really good job so I became very normal,” she explained.
“I have to get the second opinion that I was not allowed to seek before. So I guess I have this test in St. Luke’s that my doctor has been nagging me about and I hope to finally get the specialist opinion that my doctor had advised,” she said.