Vice President Sara Duterte maintained on Monday, Sept. 29, that their family was not informed by the International Criminal Court (ICC) regarding former president Rodrigo Duterte’s health condition as he was found unconscious on the floor of his detention room.

Speaking in a press conference, the official disclosed that their family received the information not from the ICC’s detention unit, which looks after her father, but from a “hospital personnel.”

“Nakuha namin yon sa hospital personnel, hindi sa detention unit, hindi sa ICC. Hindi kami sinabihan na family members na merong insidenteng ganun (We got that from the hospital personnel, not from the detention unit, not from the ICC. The family members were not informed that there was an incident like that),” she said.

“Madami kasing Pilipino kahit saan ka pumunta sa buong mundo (There are a lot of Filipinos no matter where you go in the world),” she added.

The Vice President was referring to the incident that she shared in an earlier statement that their family found out about the Duterte patriarch undergoing laboratory tests after he fell and lost consciousness.

She called it as “very alarming” that she learned from the 80-year-old former leader that this was not the first time this happened to him.

“Yes, it is very alarming. That is why I released a statement stating that clearly the ICC don’t have full control of the safety and security of the former president,” she said when asked by the media about the incident.

“I believe and the way I see it he needs 24-hour caregiver bedside care,” the younger Duterte insisted.

She issued this statement after the “welfare check” of officials of the Philippine Embassy in The Hague on the elder Duterte. The Vice President slammed the consular visit as nothing more than a ruse to report to President Marcos the well-being of her father, who his lead counsel claimed to be lacking cognitive abilities already.

“Sigurado ako na merong isang beses na pumunta sila na hindi sila nagsabi sa pamilya man na nandoon sa The Hague o sa defense team. Nalaman ko na lang sya noong meron report na binigay sa Office of the President (I am sure that one time they didn’t ask permission from the family there in The Hague or the defense team. I only learned about it from the report given to the Office of the President),” she claimed.

The younger Duterte added that the embassy has never done a welfare check on the former chief executive since he was detained there in March.

“Makikita mo sa report nag-a-assess sila sa kalusugan (You can see in the report that they were assessing his health),” she said of the report supposedly submitted to the President.

However, the Vice President did not disclose these apprehensions to her father anymore because she wouldn’t want to stress him about it.

“Ayoko na isipin nya merong mali doon sa mga sinabi niya. So, ayoko na i-confirm pa sa kanya kung ano yung nangyari doon (I don’t want him to think that there was something wrong with what he said. So, I don’t want to confirm to him what happened there),” she said.

“The confirmation of the reports that I got a copy of, enough na yun para sa akin para sabihin na hindi maganda yung kanilang motibo sa pagpunta doon (that they don’t have a good motive about going there),” she added.