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Sunday, October 05, 2008
Cebu mayor in hospital, allies confirm
CEBU CITY -- Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, whose health was the subject of false messages that circulated last August, was admitted to the hospital Saturday morning for what allies described as a check-up.
He is scheduled to leave the hospital on Sunday, but will reportedly fly to the United States for further examination on Wednesday.
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Cebu City First Lady Margot Osmeña, though, allayed fears over the mayor's condition.
"He's having a check-up, and is okay so far. Everybody has to have check-ups sometime," she told Sun.Star Cebu in a telephone interview Saturday night.
"I won't confirm or deny (that something happened to the mayor). Basta, so far, so good. He even played poker last night," she said.
In a separate interview, City Councilor Augustus Pe Jr. said the mayor simply had his scheduled executive panel Saturday morning.
"Kinsa na man pud ng nanungo (And who is it who wishes the mayor ill)?" he said when told that initial reports had it that something serious prompted the confinement.
The mayor refused to be interviewed when Sun.Star Cebu called his cellular phone.
He has not cancelled a 10 a.m. appointment on Wednesday, however, when Sun.Star Cebu checked last night.
In a separate interview, Vice Mayor Michael Rama likewise declined to comment, except only to say he "had nothing to share."
Last August 1, text messages circulated that the mayor suffered a heart attack, which got some city officials worried.
The messages started to circulate in the morning, while the mayor and his wife were preparing to leave for Bacolod to visit his mother.
That time, he granted Sun.Star Cebu a phone interview, where he said he was "alive and fine."
In March 2002, the mayor collapsed during a hypertensive crisis that required an operation and two months' rest. The last publicly known confinement of the mayor was in May last year, when he underwent a minor operation.
That was when his thigh got swollen as a result of punctures made during an angiogram. (RHM of Sun.Star Cebu)
For more Philippine news, visit Sun.Star General Santos. (October 5, 2008 issue)
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