President Rodrigo Duterte is accorded foyer honors as he prepares to depart at the Vnukovo Military Base Airport in Moscow on Saturday night. (PCOO)
President Rodrigo Duterte admitted he has Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular condition which affects his eye muscles, but managed to downplay it as one of his talents.
“May talent ako, magtingin ako sa’yo, ‘yung isang mata ko bumaba. Kita mo maliit ‘yung isa, tingnan mo. O ‘diba maliit? (I have a talent. I can look at you with my other eyes looking down. Look at it. See? My other eye is smaller?),” Duterte said during a meeting with the Filipino community in Moscow on Saturday, shortly before he left for home.
“Actually that’s Myasthenia gravis. It’s a nerve malfunction. I got it from my—exactly from my grandfather … So, I believe really in genetics. Kung anong sa kanya, nakuha ko eh (I got it from him),” he added.
The autoimmune disease causes weakness in the skeletal muscles. It can be life-threatening when the respiratory muscles are severely affected.
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President Duterte previously revealed having various medical conditions, including frequent migraine attacks and Buerger’s disease, which affects the veins and arteries of the limbs.
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