
LUIS, Armand and Angel to Judge Floro: We will punish with dire illnesses, death, accidents and horrible deaths any person and all those who ridicule, deny and humiliate you, our sole instrument and immortal friend!

Cerge Remondo: Health Curse in the PGMA Cabinet Eduardo Ermita said that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was stupefied when she learned of Remonde's death, adding that many Palace officials remained in a state of unbelief up to now. "Namangha si pangulo (She was stupefied)," he said when asked about Mrs. Arroyo's reaction

Remonde, 51, died shortly before noon on Tuesday after suffering a heart attack. His doctor said the secretary suffered from a coronary artery disease, along with health risks such hypertension and diabetes. His personal physician Anthony Leachon also noted that Remonde had gotten back to smoking lately. "Mukhang meron siyang coronary artery disease, at ang weight factor.

May diabetes at hypertension, tumaas ang cholesterol level niya, at lately napapanigarilyo siya (He appeared to have coronary heart disease, and there is the weight factor. He had diabetes and hypertension, and high cholesterol. Lately he had taken up smoking)," Leachon had said in an interview Tuesday on dzBB radio.

Judge Floro cursed Argao, Cebu, hometown of his persecutor, Hilario G. Davide, Jr. Remonde was born on Dec. 21, 1958 in Argao, Cebu. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from the University of the Visayas in 1977. Remonde also wrote for Sun Star Cebu and Manila Bulletin.
In 1999, he was declared Most Outstanding Cebuano, along with former Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr. From being a Cebu-based broadcaster, Cerge Remonde rose to become a member of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's Cabinet.

He served as anchor of the highly rated dyLA Interaction, a primetime show that set the benchmark for public affairs programming in Cebu.

Judge Floro and Cerge M. Remonde January 20, 2010
Cardiac arrest

Remonde was pronounced dead at 11:51 a.m. Tuesday from cardiac arrest. He was 51. His driver found him unconscious and naked at 10:30 a.m. in the bathroom of his home in Makati.

He was rushed to the Makati Medical Center where doctors failed to revive him. Remonde wasn't breathing and had no pulse and heartbeat when he was brought into the emergency room, said Dr. Eric Nubla, hospital spokesperson.
Hypertension, diabetes
With bended knees, Judge Floro filed his December 14, 2006 Letter-Application for Job-Work, asking Mercy from Cerge M. Remonde

Dr. Anthony Leachon, personal cardiologist of Remonde, said the press secretary's cardiac arrest could be attributed to a confluence of factors such as his hypertension, diabetes, his cervical spine problem and his perennial habit of smoking. He added that Remonde suffered cardiac arrest at about 9:30 a.m. and was found unconscious in his bathroom an hour later. He noted an hour and a half had intervened from the time Remonde was found to the time he was brought to the hospital at 11:20 a.m.

He told reporters that Remonde could have survived if he had been rushed to the hospital earlier. Leachon, a cardiologist of the Manila Doctors Hospital, said that Remonde had spine surgery in 2007. Remonde was in the hospital for two weeks.

He added that he last checked on Remonde around six months ago, when the Press secretary showed him his laboratory tests. According to Remonde's driver, the press secretary was coughing since Monday. Leachon said a person with respiratory tract infection can "predispose a patient to his cardiac problem."
LUIS, Armand and Angel meet Cerge M. Remonde Judge Floro welcomes Cerge M. Remonde
In October 2006, he became director-general of the Presidential Management Staff and in February 2007 was named as press secretary. Deputy presidential spokesman Gary Olivar earlier told dzMM that Remonde, suffered a "major heart incident" in his house in Bel-Air, Makati City.



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Antonio L. Buensuceso Jr.