Senator Robinhood “Robin” C. Padilla has been cleared to go home after undergoing a heart procedure at the Asian Hospital in Muntinlupa City on Saturday.
A statement from his office on Sunday did not say the kind of heart procedure the actor turned politician went through.
While Padilla did not categorically name the procedure, angioplasty is a heart procedure to remove a blockage.
It said Padilla will continue with his recovery during the weekend. He is expected to return to his work and normal routines soonest.
The same statement said the senator is “deeply thankful for the outpouring of prayers and well-wishes for his speedy recovery.”
“We will provide further updates on Sen. Padilla as needed,” the statement added.
Padilla said he has no illness “not until the last May elections,” when his blood pressure shot up.
Since he arrived from Spain where he took a break after the elections, his blood pressure has been going up.
“The Cardinal Santos (Medical Center) did an endoscopy and colonoscopy to look inside his body. He passed all these tests,” his office’s statement read.
According to the senator, he was also subjected to a pulmonary test, which he also passed. But when a 2D echo test was done on his heart, he was advised to see a cardiologist.
Padilla then went to Asian Hospital and underwent a stress test.
“They saw a blockage in my heart, so I underwent a heart procedure,” Padilla related to reporters later.
At present, his blood pressure is being closely monitored.
The senator’s wife, actress-host Mariel Rodriguez-Padilla, said in an Instagram Post on Saturday it was a roller coaster of emotions after a successful procedure.
“Ultimately we are just so grateful, and we are so blessed that Robin is okay,” she said.
Her family thanked the doctors and nurses of the Asian Hospital and Cardinal Santos Medical Center for the procedure.
Padilla was last seen virtually in a Senate finance subcommittee hearing on the budget of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).