The Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 76 asked the warden of the Quezon City Jail to personally escort road rage suspect Jason Ivler to court on Monday to make him testify “relative to his medical condition’’ so that it can be decided if he needs to undergo another surgery, a request that he has repeatedly sought for.
 
In an order dated July 7, Judge Alexander Balut also subpoenaed jail physician Dr. Claro Mundin and Dr. Romero Azores of the St. Luke’s Medical Center, who have been chosen by Ivler’s family to perform the surgery on the murder suspect.
 
Ivler, the prime suspect in the killing of Renato Victor Ebarle Jr., son and namesake of a former Malacañang undersecretary during a road rage incident in November 2009, was wounded in a gun battle with arresting National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) agents in his mother’s house in Blue Ridge Subdivision on January 18.
 
He underwent surgery and was confined for more than a month at the Quirino Memorial Medical Center as doctors performed a colostomy procedure on him. Ivler has been defacating through a bag and not through his anus since the operation.
 
The hearing on Monday was prompted by an urgent motion filed by Ivler’s lawyer Alexis Medina, who asked that their motion for him to be confined and undergo surgery at the Saint Luke’s Medical Center be tackled as the 15 days given to the prosecution to comment on the motion has already lapsed and no comment has been filed since.
 
Due to his worsening condition, Medina said Ivler immediately needs to undergo the “proper medical treatment."
 
It was Ivler’s second time to ask for a reconfinement and requested that he be admitted to Saint Luke’s Medical Center on June 25.
 
Last May, Ivler’s camp entered its first plea of reconfinement asking the court to allow him confinement at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) where he was supposed to undergo a preoperative work-up on the June 14 surgery to be performed by Dr. Hermogenes Monroy.
 
However, the court treated the first motion as “a scrap of paper” for having failed to comply with the court’s three-day notice rule.