FORMER Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago is back in the hospital for lung cancer treatment, but she is not in the intensive care unit (ICU) contrary to earlier news reports.

In a Facebook post, Mechel Santiago, daughter-in-law of Defensor-Santiago, said the former lawmaker was in a private room at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Bonifacio Global City in Taguig.

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