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Fitial leaves today for heart treatment in Japan, before going to US mainland
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Posted on Jul 04 2011
Gov. Benigno R. Fitial leaves today for an estimated three-week off-island trip that will start in Nagoya, Japan where he is set to have a coronary angiogram, before going to San Francisco in California, Washington, D.C., and then to Utah for different meetings.
If his physician at the Nagoya University Hospital determines that he needs heart bypass surgery, then he will have to go back to Nagoya for this operation after his U.S. trips.
“I’m having my angiogram, to check my heart,” Fitial said in an interview at the Fourth of July Parade yesterday.
He said he will keep Lt. Gov. Eloy S. Inos apprised of his medical condition.
From Nagoya, Fitial said he will be going to San Francisco, California to attend another meeting of the Region 9 Federal Regional Council.
He will then proceed to Washington, D.C. mainly to testify on a bill that Delegate Gregorio Kilili Sablan introduced, and on the implementation of U.S. Public Law 110-229, which placed CNMI immigration under federal control.
“I am testifying against the bill introduced by Kilili,” the governor told reporters.
Sablan’s HR 1466 proposes a “CNMI-only resident status” for four groups of people, including those who have U.S. citizen children or spouses.
From the nation’s capital, the governor will travel to Utah to attend the National Governors Association Annual Meeting.
First lady Josie Fitial will be accompanying the governor during the entire trip.
