Cory fights cancer, gov’t corruption
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Despite her personal battle against colon cancer and President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s prayer for her to get well, former President Corazon Aquino said she is still pursuing the fight for truth on allegations of rampant corruption in the administration. She gave the assurance after she missed the Sunday Mass for Truth, Accountability and Justice that she initiated last Feb. 17 in support of Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr., key witness in the anomaly in the canceled $329-million national broadband network (NBN) project.
Mrs. Aquino sent her message to Lozada and their supporters at the Mass held at the Immaculate Conception Parish of the Manila Cathedral School in Tayuman in Tondo, Manila through her two grandsons, Jiggy Cruz and Kiko Dee. “We are here to tell you, especially Mr. Jun Lozada , that our grandmother still supports you.
Just like you, we draw our strength from her,” Cruz said. Mrs. Aquino’s grandson revealed that her health has been ‘improving’ since she was diagnosed with colon cancer and started undergoing chemotherapy. “She’s improving and she has better appetite now,” Cruz bared. After a week of chemotherapy for her colon cancer and a torrent of prayers, laboratory results showed that Mrs. Aquino’s hemoglobin count has improved, her daughter Pinky Aquino Abellada said. “Her appetite is better and she is not as weak as the first few days of her chemotherapy,” says Abellada, who marvels also about how her mother went through the first week of her treatment “without a word of complaint.”
After a Mass for Mrs. Aquino recently at the Ateneo Chapel in Rockwell, Makati City which was organized by Ching Escaler, Mrs. Aquino’s very first appointments secretary, Abellada also thanked the hundreds present who came to pray for her mother.
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