Video call?! De Lima asks courts permission to talk to her critically-ill mom
LEILA DE LIMA – The detained senator asked the permission of Muntinlupa City Regional Trial Court Branches 204 and 256 to allow her to make a video call with her ailing mother who is now in critical condition after being infected with COVID-19.
In a motion filed by her legal counsel on Feb. 3, De Lima plead to allow her to see her mother even through a video call.
The senator’s mother was rushed to a hospital in Iriga City on January 22 after testing positive for the coronavirus on January 10.
However, her vital signs including her pulse rate and oxygen saturation levels declined based on her lab results released on February 1.
Because there was no intensive care unit facility at the hospital in Iriga City, the senator’s mother was transferred to a hospital in Naga City on February 2.
The senator has only seen her mother three times since she was arrested in February 2017.
Meanwhile, Leila Norma Eulalia Josefa Magistrado de Lima, a politician, lawyer, human rights activist, and law professor is currently serving as senator of the Philippines since 2016.
Previously, she held the positions of Chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights from May 2008 to June 2010, and as the Secretary of Justice from 2010 to 2015 under the administration of late president Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III.
In 2017, she was arrested for her alleged link on the drug trade at the New Bilibid Prison during her term as the Justice secretary.
Presently, she is running for the senate again under the slate of presidential candidate, Vice President Leni Robredo.
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