{"id":233699,"date":"2019-10-07T00:10:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T04:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=233699"},"modified":"2019-10-07T00:10:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T04:10:39","slug":"duterte-says-he-has-a-nerve-malfunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/10\/07\/duterte-says-he-has-a-nerve-malfunction\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte says he has a nerve malfunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_233707\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233707\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191005-CDO-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-233707\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191005-CDO-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191005-CDO-21.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191005-CDO-21-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191005-CDO-21-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191005-CDO-21-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-233707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivers his speech during his meeting with the Filipino community at the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNH) in Moscow on October 5, 2019. ROBINSON NI\u00d1AL JR.\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Amid the health rumors surrounding the Philippine President, he admitted having a myasthenia gravis, which he described as \u201cnerve malfunction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got it from my\u2026 exactly from my grandfather, <em>ganun rin siya<\/em> (he also has it). So I believe really in genetics. <em>Kung anong sa kanya, nakuha ko eh<\/em> (Whatever he had, I acquired too),\u201d President Rodrigo Roa Duterte said on Saturday, October 5, during his meeting with the Filipino community at the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNH) in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>During his speech, Duterte was explaining why one of his eyes looks smaller compared to the other saying, \u201c<em>Ganun ako eh. May<\/em> talent <em>ako, magtingin ako sa\u2019yo, \u2018yung isang mata ko bumaba. Kita mo maliit \u2018yung isa, tingnan mo. O \u2018di maliit. O \u2018yun. Nag-nagsasariling biyahe \u2018yan<\/em> (That is how I am. I have this talent, when I look at you, one of my eyes will look down. You can see that the other is smaller, look. It is smaller. It goes its own way),\u201d which drew laughter from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Myasthenia gravis, according to the United States National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, is a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease that causes weakness in the skeletal muscles, which are responsible for breathing and moving parts of the body, including the arms and legs. It may also involve muscle controls on eye, eyelid, facial expression, chewing, talking, and swallowing. Myasthenia gravis has no known cure but available treatments can control symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>At 74, the Chief Executive has been the subject of many rumors regarding his health.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from this revelation, Duterte is known to suffer from Barrett\u2019s esophagus, Buerger\u2019s disease, and nerve damage from a motorcycle accident.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine Constitution Article VII Section 12 states that \u201cIn case of serious illness of the President, the public shall be informed of the state of his health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the health rumors surrounding the Philippine President, he admitted having a myasthenia gravis, which he described as \u201cnerve malfunction.\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":233707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233708,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233699\/revisions\/233708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}