De Lima leaves hospital after undergoing surgery

Senator Leila de Lima left the hospital past noon on Sunday after having major surgery.

De Lima got out of the Manila Doctors Hospital and rode a Philippine National Police Coaster van at 12:40 p.m., according to a report by Jhomer Apresto on Super Radyo dzBB.

From the hospital, De Lima was brought back to the PNP Custodial Center at Camp Crame in Quezon City.

The lawmaker arrived at the Camp Crame facility at 1:04 p.m.

TINGNAN: As of 1:04pm, nakabalik na sa PNP Custodial Facility sa Camp Crame si Senador Leila De Lima.

Matatandaan na noong ika-20 ng Hunyo ng dalhin siya sa ospital para sa isang major operation. |@dzbb @gmanews pic.twitter.com/dEuBc2Z8VD

— Jhomer Apresto (@jhomer_apresto) June 26, 2022

The Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 204 earlier granted the senator's motion for a medical furlough between June 19 and June 25 for "surgery and hospital confinement."

She arrived at the Manila Doctors Hospital in Manila on Monday, June 20, to undergo a major surgical procedure.

De Lima has been detained at the PNP Custodial Center in Camp Crame, Quezon City since February 2017 over allegations that she allowed the illegal drug trade to proliferate inside the New Bilibid Prison during her term as justice secretary.

Her alleged complicity in the sale of illegal drugs was supposedly in exchange for funds for her senatorial campaign in 2016, a charge she has repeatedly denied and claimed to have been fabricated by the Duterte administration.

A drug case against De Lima was junked by the Muntinlupa RTC Branch 205 in February last year. The senator is also facing another drug case that is pending before Branch 256. —KG, GMA News