Jolo Revilla still in ICU, has ‘foot-long’ gunshot wound –lawyer

Cavite Vice Governor Jolo Revilla's doctors “have insisted” to keep him in the ICU for the meantime, in order for them to determine if the gunshot wound he sustained over the weekend is healing properly following surgery, according to the family's spokesperson, lawyer Raymond Fortun.

“Sa akin pong pagkakaalam, the doctors have insisted to the family that he stays in the ICU in the meantime, until magkaroon ng malinaw na indication na he is healing properly,” Fortun said Tuesday in an interview with “News To Go.”

“The doctors are just being careful right now,” he added.

Fortun said the internal wound that Revilla sustained from the .40-caliber Glock pistol that he was cleaning Saturday morning is “almost one foot” long through the chest cavity. He said 200 cc of blood has been extracted from that wound on Monday.

Before this, 500 cc, or half a liter of blood, was first taken from Revilla's wound on Sunday.

“Mahaba po 'yung path ng bullet... Ito po, 'yung buong chest cavity, almost one foot ang haba ng wound, so that's at least one foot [ng sugat] na [posibleng] magiging sanhi ng internal bleeding and so forth, pwedeng magkaroon ng infection,” Fortun said.

Revilla, son of detained Senator Ramon Bong Revilla Jr., went through another CT scan on Tuesday morning, Fortun said.

“I think doctors would want first to see kung ano talaga 'yung progress ng operation na nangyari sa kaniya nu'ng Sunday, and to make sure na walang ibang complication na mag-develop dahil dito,” he added.

“'Yung bullet wound po kasi na 'yan can really cause a possible pagbaba ng kaniyang immune system, so talagang minamanmanan at inaalagaan po ng doktor habang si Jolo ay nandoon sa ospital,” Fortun further said.

Thankful for Sandiganbayan's 'compassion'

In the same interview, Fortun said the family is grateful that the Sandiganbayan First Division allowed Sen. Revilla, who is detained in connection with the alleged pork barrel scam, to visit his son on Tuesday afternoon with a five-hour furlough.

“Sobra po silang natutuwa at nagpapasalamat po sa husgado para po sa kanilang compassion na ipinakita nila ngayon,” he said.

He said the older Revilla is expected to talk to the attending physician, look into the medical charts, to see the progress in his son's condition.

“Hopefully, mabigyan siya ng enough time na makausap talaga si Jolo nang silang dalawa lang,” Fortun also said.

The family spokesman noted that like any patient in a similar condition, the younger Revilla is going through a phase of “gising-tulog, gising-tulog,” especially because he's under medication up to now.

The older Revilla, currently detained at the PNP Custodial Center over allegations of graft and plunder, was granted the visit to his son at the Asian Hospital and Medical Center in Muntinlupa City from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. —Rose-An Jessica Dioquino/KBK, GMA News