President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III is “in good health and is fit to run the country’s affairs.”
“Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte made the statement after the White House released the results of the periodic physical examination of United States President Barack Obama, who was given a clean bill of health,” reports Joyce Pangco Panares in Manila Standard Today.
Valte emphasized, “The President consults his personal physicians on a very regular basis. And I was told by one of them that: ‘Yes, he maintains, generally good health,’ Of course, I cannot go into details. I myself do not have those details owing to the fact that we respect the patient-doctor privilege.”
Valte added that “there is no deliberate move on the part of the Palace to hide the true state of Aquino’s health.”
The report noted, though, that when Valte was asked about the President’s coughing fits in recent public events where he had to deliver speeches, she said Aquino “has mentioned about having allergies.”
Yes, he’s probably allergic…to cigarettes.
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