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MANILA (3rd UPDATE) - Vice President Sara Duterte on Saturday claimed she received information that her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte, was found unconscious on the floor in his room in the International Criminal Court detention facility in The Hague. &quot;Credible information received by the family from hospital sources reveals that Former President Duterte had to be subjected to laboratory tests after being found unconscious on the floor of his room,&quot; she said in a statement released Saturday.<div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/9/24/welfare-check-on-duterte-in-icc-part-of-duty-of-foreign-service-posts-dfa-1823">Welfare check on Duterte in ICC part of duty of foreign service posts: DFA</a></div> &quot;The family was not informed of the &#x27;accident&#x27; and no explanation was given. These alarming developments raise grave concerns about the capacity of the ICC to guarantee the security and safety of FPRRD.&quot;The Vice President also claimed that the ICC could not even provide immediate treatment for an ingrown toenail, and alleged that it has ignored the need for a 24-hour bedside caregiver for her father.&quot;If the ICC is to remain true to its mandate as a court of justice, it cannot turn a blind eye to the health and wellness condition of FPRRD,&quot; said the younger Duterte.&quot;To deprive an elderly man — abducted, denied his rights under Philippine law, and subjected to surveillance disguised as &#x27;welfare checks&#x27; — of basic dignity and proper care is not justice. This is cruelty.&quot;<div>&#x27;NOT SWAYED BY PROPAGANDA&#x27;</div>ICC spokesperson Fadi El Abdallah declined to comment on Duterte&#x27;s medical condition.&quot;We don’t comment on private matters of the detainees,&quot; he told ABS-CBN News. &quot;The Court takes all necessary measures for the preservation of physical and psychological wellbeing of all detainees.&quot;Atty. Maria Kristina Conti, ICC assistant to counsel, downplayed the Vice President&#x27;s statement.&quot;Third persons disclosing the medical condition or situation of a person at the ICC detention facility must be aware of that there are strict Dutch laws on medical confidentiality. Medical records are only available to healthcare providers who are involved in a patient&#x27;s care, and cannot be used for any other purpose than his/her care without explicit consent,&quot; Conti said in a Facebook post Saturday.&quot;Duterte&#x27;s coterie of family, friends, and advisers - especially those with no current or direct access to Duterte - should understand that the ICC as an institution is not typically swayed by either propaganda or public clamor,&quot; she added.&quot;Duterte&#x27;s health condition should be properly and formally transmitted to the court by his legal team. It should also be closely monitored by the ICC detention facility medical team,&quot; Conti said. &quot;Know that &#x27;fake news&#x27; and disinformation can backfire on your cause. Don&#x27;t be the hammer that drives the nail home, or closes the door shut.&quot;&quot;PS. Speaking of nails. Google says if you have ingrown toenails, soak feet in warm water, with soap or apple cider vinegar,&quot; she said.<div>WELFARE CHECK</div>The Vice President earlier complained after Philippine officials visited her father for what she said was a &quot;sham welfare check&quot; in his detention facility at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.She added that the ICC is partly to blame.&quot;The Philippine Government&#x27;s admission that a so-called &#x27;welfare check&#x27; was surreptitiously conducted confirms that the ICC has allowed agents of the government that abducted Former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte to intrude upon him and exploit his frail and compromised health. This is nothing less than an abuse of power against a vulnerable individual,&quot; said the younger Duterte.The former president&#x27;s defense counsel, Nicholas Kaufman, said Duterte told him incidents when he fell inside his dentention cell. &quot;As a result of one of these incidents, he lost consciousness and was evacuated to hospital where he was assessed for cranial and brain injury,&quot; Kaufman told ABS-CBN News. &quot;None of this was reported either to the Defence team or to the family in real time.&quot; &quot;The former President is fatigued from his detention and physically incapacitated by various medical conditions afflicting a person of his advanced age. All of these conditions are now known to the Marcos administration after its representatives conducted a surreptitious visit to the ICC detention centre to gather intelligence under the  pretense of offering supposed ‘care and concern’ for the welfare of one its citizens,&quot; he said.&quot;The Court will rule on whether the former President, who has been kept from the public eye since his surrender, may continue to be detained,&#x27;&quot; he added.The Department of Foreign Affairs on Saturday said the ICC acts in accordance with the ICC Rome Statute and relevant applicable rules and follows the international standards of detained persons having access to consular representatives. &quot;Such visits, if any, are strictly conducted with the approval or at the request of the person in detention,” it added. &quot;It can be underscored that the consular visit was made by career consular officials of the Embassy in a professional, nonintrusive and respectful manner, and not by any other supposed ‘agents of the government’,&quot; the DFA said. &quot;As to an alleged recent incident pertaining to the former President’s health condition, the Philippine Government has no information on such matter, and inquiries about it are best referred to the ICC Spokesperson.&quot;The ICC earlier said it “acts in accordance with the ICC Rome Statute and relevant applicable rules and follows the international standards of detained persons having access to consular representatives.”“Such visits, if any, are strictly conducted with the approval or at the request of the person in detention,” it said.<div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/9/24/vp-sara-slam-ph-officials-for-sham-welfare-check-on-dad-rodrigo-duterte-1251">&#x27;FPRRD does not need you&#x27;: VP Sara slams PH officials for &#x27;sham welfare check&#x27; on dad Rodrigo Duterte</a></div> The younger Duterte again called for her father&#x27;s interim release.&quot;FPRRD is not a flight risk, has never threatened witnesses or complainants, and has no intent to assume the office of Mayor,&quot; claimed the Vice President.&quot;There is no other reason for his continued detention except to make him suffer for the complaint of disgraced former Senator.&quot;Duterte, now 80 years old, faces accusations linked to thousands of killings during this administration’s bloody “war on drugs” carried out on a national scale in the Philippines, between November 2011 and March 2019. Duterte’s legal team has requested to adjourn proceedings, claiming the former Philippine leader is suffering from “cognitive impairment in multiple domains,” rendering him unfit to stand trial.<div> </div><div><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qXBleBgGKkA??si=4enIzOdjjSlk65hF&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe> </div>

Vice President Sara Duterte on Saturday claimed she received information that her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte, was found unconscious on the floor in his room in The Hague.

Vice President Sara Duterte on Saturday claimed she received information that her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte, was found unconscious on the floor in his room in The Hague.

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Sara Duterte says father underwent lab tests after found unconscious

Dennis Gasgonia,

Zen Hernandez,

ABS-CBN News

Published September 27, 2025 05:29 PM PHT

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Updated September 27, 2025 09:16 PM PHT

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