President Rodrigo Duterte is “feeling much better” now, Malacañang said Thursday, as his doctor ruled out any surgical procedure to address his back pain.
Duterte’s spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the President was diagnosed to be having muscle spasms and was advised by his doctor to rest, avoid standing or walking for long duration as well as to take medicines that will relieve him of the pain caused by the muscular spasms.
“His doctor ruled out any surgical procedure for the President,” Panelo said. “The President is presently feeling much better.”
The Palace spokesman said the President underwent a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and medical evaluation on Wednesday after cutting his trip to Japan on Tuesday due to “unbearable pain” in his spinal column as a result of a motorcycle mishap last week.
“As the public already knows, the Chief Executive suffered from a motorcycle accident several years ago, and from another minor mishap involving the same type of motor vehicle just last Wednesday, October 16,” Panelo said.
“The attending doctor said that there is a strong likelihood that these incidents may have caused or possibly aggravated the current pain he is suffering from in his lower back.”
However, Panelo said the public “need not worry“ about the President's health.
He said the President will even meet with China’s Vice Premier Hu Chunhua on Thursday to discuss, among others, certain infrastructure projects in the country under Chinese financing.
“Despite the President’s somewhat impaired physical profile, he will continue to perform his presidential duties which include attending to local and foreign engagements in the following days, with the same passion and dedication, in obedience to the constitutional command to serve and protect the Filipino people,” Panelo said. —KBK, GMA News
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