Counsels for road rage murder suspect Jason Ivler asked a Quezon City court to allow him to be confined in a private hospital preferably at St. Luke’s Medical Center after the court rejected a similar request made last May.

Earlier, the Quezon City Regional Trial Court branch 76 treated the previous motion as a “scrap of paper’’ after Ivler’s camp failed to adhere to the court’s three day notice rule on the confinement request.

The suspect’s camp requested the court to allow the admission of Ivler at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) for a pre-operative work-up for the six to eight hour surgery to be done by Dr. Hermogenes Monroy supposedly scheduled last June 14. The recovery period for such procedure was estimated at one month.

Ivler who is the prime suspect in the killing of Renato Victor Ebarle Jr., son and namesake of a Malacañang official said a doctor at the PGH recommended abdominal surgery to reverse his colostomy a condition that makes him defecate through a bag.

After shooting it out with agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in his Blue Ridge residence last January 18, Ivler was confined for more than a month at the Quirino Memorial Medical Center.

In a motion, Ivler’s lawyers asked that the suspect be confined at the SLMC on June 25 so his attending physician Dr. Romarico Azores can conduct examinations on him in preparation for the surgery to reverse his colostomy and attend to the infection of the wounds until his full recovery from the abdominal operation.

Ivler’s legal counsel claimed that his wound infection worsened since his April transfer to the Quezon City Jail from the QMMC, stressing that the jail facility has no adequate equipment and medical staff to attend to their client’s health concerns.