UpdateFormer senator Jinggoy Estrada has asked for medical furlough for two days to undergo videocolonoscopy even as he is detained for plunder over the pork barrel scam. ADVERTISEMENT“The doctor advised me to undergo colonoscopy, up and down, gastroscopy tsaka colonoscopy… Mayroon lang mga elevated blood test na nakita, abnormalities din,” Estrada said in an ambush interview. In a four-page motion filed before the Sandiganbayan Fifth Division, Estrada asked for a two-day furlough to undergo a videocolonoscopy at the Cardinal Santos Medical Center in San Juan City. “Considering the procedure requirement of one day, and post procedure, the accused requests that he be allowed to have two days medical pass,” Estrada said. The detained former senator previously filed and was granted medical passes on November 2014 and last May 2017 for his shoulder pains.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 17, 2017 07:51 UTC