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By CONG B. CORRALES
Associate Editor

EX-MAYOR Vicente Emano was rushed to the Capitol University Medical City (CUMC) in Gusa mid-morning on Saturday, hospital personnel confirmed to the Gold Star Daily.

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The erstwhile leader of the city was brought to the emergency room of CUMC mid-morning, and then moved to Room 401 of CUMC’s intensive care unit (ICU).

The Gold Star Daily first confirmed this with the hospital’s Admitting Section late afternoon of the same day.  This paper was informed by a hospital staff member, who checked with the CUMC’s computer database, that Emano was brought to the emergency room at around 10:30 am Saturday.

He was then wheeled to ICU Room 401. An ICU is a unit in a hospital where seriously ill patients are cared for by specially trained staff. The ICU staff includes doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists clinical nurse specialists, pharmacists, physical therapists, and dietitians, among others.

Pressed for further information on the illness of Emano, ER personnel declined, saying the patient requested that “only relatives will be given updates of his condition.”

The hospital’s ICU section is located at the right wing of the second floor of the main building. This writer tried to check if close friends and family of Emano are loitering in the lobby. However, only a bodyguard sat beside the section’s entrance at the time this paper checked.

Councilor Alexander Dacer said he was told that Emano went to the hospital for a “check-up.” But Dacer said it was also possible that Emano went to CUMC to see his daughter who works as a physician there. He denied that Emano was in the ICU of CUMC.

Later, Dacer said Emano only went to CUMC because his daughter Natasha “forced him” to undergo a medical examination in preparation for his election campaign.

He claimed Emano went home the same day. Dacer said Emano laughed when talk started circulating that he was under intensive care. He claimed Emano called him up to say that he was in shape. (with reports from nitz arancon and shiela mae butlig)

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Before joining the Gold Star Daily, Cong worked as the deputy director of the multimedia desk of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), and before that he served as a writing fellow of Vera Files. Under the pen name "Cong," Leonardo Vicente B. Corrales has worked as a journalist since 2008.Corrales has published news, in-depth, investigative and feature articles on agrarian reform, peace and dialogue initiatives, climate justice, and socio-economics in local and international news organizations, which which includes among others: Philippine Daily Inquirer, Business World, MindaNews, Interaksyon.com, Agence France-Presse, Xinhua News Wires, Thomson-Reuters News Wires, UCANews.com, and Pecojon-PH.He is currently the Editor in Chief of this paper.