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OVP's Zuleika Lopez taken to hospital after falling ill
Undersecretary Zuleika Lopez of the Office of the Vice President was brought to the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City early Saturday morning after she felt ill amid the House of Representatives' order to transfer her to the Women’s Correctional Facility.
WATCH: While on a stretcher, OVP chief of staff Zuleika Lopez was brought from the House custodial facility to the Veterans Memorial Medical Center via PNP ambulance past 3am.
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Lopez was accompanied by Vice President Sara Duterte, according to GMA Integrated News' Jhomer Apresto.
"Nagsuka siya nang nagsuka tapos nag collapse,'' Duterte said in an interview.
(After vomiting repeatedly, she collapsed.)
WATCH: Isinugod na sa Veterans Hospital sakay ng ambulansya ang chief of staff ni Vice President Sara Duterte na si Atty. Zuleika Lopez matapos mapaulat na nahimatay umano ito dahil sa panic attack.
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Lopez was later transferred to St. Luke's Medical Center also in Quezon City.
An emotional Lopez earlier faced a virtual news conference to express her concern about the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability's decision to remove her from the House detention facility in the middle of the night.
''This is a threat to my life,'' she said.
Lopez was ordered detained at the lower chamber after she was cited in contempt for her supposed "undue interference" in the panel’s investigation into the confidential funds of offices held by Vice President Sara Duterte.
The detention is until Nov. 25, the date of the committee's next hearing on the disbursement of confidential funds by the OVP and the Department of Education under Duterte.
Lopez had confirmed to the committee investigating the disbursement of confidential funds by the OVP and the DepEd that it was she who signed the letter to the Commission on Audit, asking the latter not to comply with House subpoena on audit reports on the fund releases.
Lopez, on Wednesday told a congressional hearing that she has no knowledge of how the OVP utilizes its confidential funds, saying her role in the OVP is only to oversee the institutionalization and implementation of all the socioeconomic projects of the office. —VBL/KG, GMA Integrated News
