Gigi Reyes transferred to Heart Center

JESSICA Lucila “Gigi” Reyes was admitted to the Philippine Heart Center in Quezon City on Friday night after she experienced chest pains and difficulty in breathing, media reports said on Saturday.

Reyes, one of the accused in a plunder case stemming from the pork barrel scam, was transferred to the Heart Center from the Taguig Pateros District Hospital in Taguig City, where she had been confined since last Wednesday.

She was briefly detained at Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig where she was transferred from the Sandiganbayan holding cell.

Lawyers of the 51-year-old former chief of staff of Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile had objected to her being detained at Camp Bagong Diwa, saying she had to share her cell with captured communist rebels who are “hostile” to Enrile, who was defense minister during the martial law years.

She was taken to the district hospital after she had a panic attack and seizure, police authorities said.

Reyes was too ill to attend her arraignment at the Sandiganbayan on Friday, but in a three-page motion she requested to be confined either at the Heart Center or the Santa Ana Hospital in Manila.

In a medical abstract accompanying the motion, Dr. Anthony Lontoc of the district hospital said Reyes complained

of persistent palpitations accompanied by lightheadedness and syncopal attack shortly after she

Lontoc recommended that Reyes “be transferred to a tertiary hospital capable of evaluating her cardiac condition and

On Saturday, demonstrators gathered outside the Heart Center to protest condemned the special treat - ing, Enrile, who is detained at the Philippine National Police (PNP) General Hospital in Camp Crame, had another eye check-up at the Asian

The 90-year-old senator had his - ter surrendering to the authorities

Charged with him before the Sandiganbayan are fellow senators Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada and Ramon

A police ambulance brought Enrile to the eye clinic at the up

The director of the PNP health ser The senator was brought back to the

Advincula said the PNP hospital does not have an eye specialist or the equipment to treat Enrile’s eye problem, diagnosed earlier as muscular degeneration due to his age and could

Doctors at the PNP general hospital said Enrile also has an “un makes it risky to have him moved at the custodial center where

the Sandiganbayan seeking for a hospital arrest, the court sent a team from the Philippine General Hospital

The team will submit its report