1:30 AM Jan. 5, 1972
At the Presidential Suite
Veterans Memorial Hospital
We came from Talaga this afternoon at
5:00 PM, leaving last night at 12:00 PM
I water skied at about 11:00 AM.
Imelda has just been operated on for the black silk suture of the tendon of her right forearm which was causing irritation.
It was decided to operate on her when at 8:00 PM, after the decoration and cocktails for Indonesian Ambassador [Kosma Utumo?], the doctors dressing her wound found yellowish pus looking excretion from the wound when she moved her hand sidewise. She, herself, decided to have the operation tonight so she can sleep in the hospital throughout the night and leave in the morning.
Dr. Pacifico Yap did the surgery and extracted the black silk suture which I keep in a white gauze, probing inside the wound after cutting it open by less than an inch. Then closed it,
Official Gazette for January 4, 1973: CLEARED BY a military tribunal after he was tried for illegal pos session of firearms and ammunition, was Carlito Ilagan, resident of Mandaluyong, Rizal. Ilagan was cleared of criminal liability after the military court found no sufficient evidence against him. Tribunals, lately, have been sentencing violators of the arms ban to imprisonments ranging from 20 to 25 years, at hard labor.
THIRTY-NINE MORE policemen were suspended in three cities and nine municipalities as the Police Commission discovered strong evidence of guilt in grave administrative cases pending against them. This brings to 579 the number of policemen suspended by the Polcom since it began acting on the President’s directives—a relentless cleaning-up campaign in the police service. Among those already suspended are two city police chiefs and 24 municipal police chiefs.
SOME 1,500 members of four subversive organizations in Nueva Ecija eaflirmed their allegiance to the government at a massive rally in Cabanatuan City. Many of those who joined the rally were deeply involved in the violent activist demonstrations in Manila in 1969 and 1970. They were former members of the Samahan ng mga Demokratikong Kabataan, Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataang Filipino and Kabataan Makabayan. In Nueva Vizcaya, 936 members of the Barrio Organization Committee, service support of insurgent groups likewise swore allegiance to the government in simple ceremonies held in Bayombong.
COMMENDED FOR turning over P300 in cash and some documents he found while working at the Central Post Office Building on Liwasang Bonifacio, was Jose Orcilla, 20, an employee of Platon Company, a janitorial firm servicing the Bureau of Posts. The janitor was honored by Postmaster General Felizardo Tanabe by giving him a permanent job in the Bureau, in line with his policy of recruiting employes of good moral character.
“OPERATION PALAGAD ‘73 Bagong Lipunan,” an intensified rice production program for the dry season, was launched by government and private agricultural, marketing and financing officials. The program is aimed at producing a surplus of some three million cavans of palay over the regular harvest from 100,000 hectares of irrigated rice farms in Central Luzon, Rizal and Laguna, or an estimated increase in average yield of 20 to 40 cavans per hectare.
MILITARY COMMISSION No. 6 started the trial of 20 persons accused in the malversation of 4,401 bags of RCA rice intended to assist flood victims during the last flood. Of the 20 accused, six are officers and employes of the defunct Rice and Corn Administration and the rest are private persons who had something to do with the custody and control of the RCA rice on the basis of brokerage, trucking, loading and storage.
suturing it.
The wound should close in four days. I attach copy of the medial bulletin.
She has decided to go to the U.S. so as to consult with the best physio-therapists in Walter Reed as well Dr. Robert Chase as she has difficulty moving her right fingers.
Bongbong and Irene looked like little doctors in their surgical gowns, masks and caps during the operation.
REPUBLIKA NG PILIPINAS
KAGAWARAN NG TANGGULANG BANSA
PANG-ALAALANG PAGAMUTAN NG MGA BETERANO
(VETERANS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL)
ABENIDA HILAGA, LUNGSOD QUEZON
January 4, 1973
The First Lady underwent minor surgery last night at Veterans Memorial Hospital. The operation lasted from 11:15 P.M. to 11:30 P.M. A tendon suture which was causing irritation due to a foreign body reaction was removed. She was allowed to leave the hospital the following morning. Other than this irritation all the other injuries sustained are healing very satisfactorily.
Anesthesia was given by Drs. Quintin Gomez and Paciencia Disini. The surgeons were Drs. Pacifico Yap, Abelardo Inocentes, Jorge Neri and Mario Hufana. The internist was Dra. Juanita Zagala and the Clinical Pathologist was Dra. Amelia Garcia.