Ex-Comelec chief Benipayo rushed to hospital in Iloilo
02/22/2008 | 09:15 PM
Former Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman and Solicitor General Alfredo Benipayo was hospitalized in Iloilo City after collapsing, Visayas-based Bombo Radyo reported Friday night.
The report said Benipayo collapsed at about 3 p.m. while giving a lecture before the Integrated Bar of the Philippines Iloilo Chapter in a hotel in the city, and was rushed to the Iloilo Saint Paul's Hospital.
Lawyer Joseph Lutero, who attended the lecture, said Benipayo collapsed while in the middle of his lecture.
As of Friday evening, the Bombo Radyo report quoted doctors as saying Benipayo's condition had stabilized.
Benipayo, who also served as the Supreme Court's court administrator and as a Court of Appeals justice, is now dean of the faculty of civil law at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila.
He reportedly plans to return to Iloilo next week to "resume" his lecture. - GMANews.TV
The report said Benipayo collapsed at about 3 p.m. while giving a lecture before the Integrated Bar of the Philippines Iloilo Chapter in a hotel in the city, and was rushed to the Iloilo Saint Paul's Hospital.
Lawyer Joseph Lutero, who attended the lecture, said Benipayo collapsed while in the middle of his lecture.
As of Friday evening, the Bombo Radyo report quoted doctors as saying Benipayo's condition had stabilized.
Benipayo, who also served as the Supreme Court's court administrator and as a Court of Appeals justice, is now dean of the faculty of civil law at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila.
He reportedly plans to return to Iloilo next week to "resume" his lecture. - GMANews.TV
