Filipino senator Miriam Defensor Santiago – the first Asian from a developing country to be elected a judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague – will be applying for a four months delay in taking up her seat in the hope that she recovers from chronic fatigue syndrome.
According to ABS/CBN News, she says she is compelled to seek extended sick leave following a diagnosis of CFS by Dr Joven Cuanang, Medical Director, St. Luke’s Medical Centre in Quezon City.
A lawyer, she was elected to the ICC in 2011 and told to report for duty in September this year. The court tries cases of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In Norway there are several hundred who are still very ill and suffering from ME after a scandalous meningococcal vaccine experiment in the early ’90’s.