MANILA – Malacañang sees no need to release a medical bulletin regarding President Rodrigo Duterte’s back pain.
Duterte’s spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that a medical bulletin “comes into play only when the President is in serious illness.”
“That is the constitutional requirement,” Panelo told reporters on Friday.
He added the 74-year-old President has been transparent about his health by telling the public what ails him.
Duterte had scrapes and bruises following a motorcycle accident inside the Presidential Security Group compound within the Malacañang Complex on October 16.
He had to cut short his trip to Japan on Tuesday, where he attended the enthronement ceremony of Emperor Naruhito, because of an “unbearable pain” in his spinal column which his doctor said was a case of muscular spasm.
Panelo confirmed that Duterte went for a ride on an all-terrain vehicle on Thursday night in the Palace complex despite the advice of the President’s doctor for him to take some rest and limit his physical activity.
But Panelo said what the President did was just a form of exercise. (With GMA News/PN)
