The Waigani National Court on Friday ordered the Correctional Service Commissioner and the Bomana Jail Commander to allow for urgent medical attention to be given to Eremas Wartoto.
The court ordered for the parties to immediately take the convicted businessman to the Port Moresby General Hospital’s Sir Buri Kidu Heart Institution.
The orders follow an urgent application filed by Wartoto’s lawyer, Paul Pori Yange.
Justice David Cannings presiding over the matter, accepted Yange’s submission that his client’s medical condition is deteriorating and he needs close medical observation.
Wartoto suffers from chronic hypertension or high blood pressure, a condition his lawyer says has since deteriorated following his conviction and sentence in 2017.
Yange says, Wartoto 53, had further developed other medical condition over the course of his trial, conditions that have not improved behind bars because of lack of proper diet and exercise.
The Interim Orders granted by Justice Cannings are returnable on the 28th of February 2018 where the Court will hear proper submissions on why he should be allowed to be re-admitted at the hospital and not at the Bomana Correctional Facility Clinic.
Loop PNG file picture of Wartoto back in February 2016 during his trial