Singer Jovit Baldivino passes away at 29

Jovit Baldivino, singer and first grand winner of “Pilipinas Got Talent,” has passed away, his wife Camille Ann Miguel has confirmed. He was 29.

According to a radio report, Jovit was confined at the Jesus of Nazareth Hospital in Batangas on Sunday night after collapsing at a party and falling into a coma.

He died early on Friday.

Camille also made a public Facebook post of a photo of the two of them together with the caption “Asawa ko” in all caps along with crying emojis. The comments section is filled with messages of condolences.

Jovit, a student from Batangas who also worked as a siomai vendor to earn extra income, wowed audiences with his vocal skills on “Pilipinas Got Talent” in 2010.

Most recently, he appeared in an episode of “Family Feud.”

He is best known for his renditions of “Ika’y Mahal Pa Rin,” “Pusong Bato,” “Mula sa Puso,” “Faithfully,” and “Too Much Love Will Kill You,” among others.

At a press briefing on Friday, Department of Health officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said that an aneurysm is a condition in which a person’s arteries weaken. Arteries carry oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the different parts of the body.

She said that aneurysms can develop in the abdomen, legs, brain, and heart.

“Most of these aneurysms are unreported or undocumented kasi usually ‘pag dumating sa ospital, it’s already at that late stage hindi na nakakagawa ng scanning na kailangan to confirm that it is really aneurysm,” she said. 

(Most of these aneurysms go unreported or undocumented because, usually, once the patient arrives at the hospital, it’s already at that late stage where no scanning can be done to confirm that it is really an aneurysm.)

Vergeire said the common symptoms of aneurysm are severe headache, dizziness, and chest and stomach pain.

She said risk factors include smoking and genetic.

The DOH official advised the public to avoid unhealthy lifestyle such as smoking and have themselves checked by a doctor. —Nika Roque and Richa Noriega/JCB/VBL, GMA Integrated News