DHAKA: The jet-setting former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos, has been hospitalised after suffering ‘fatigue’, an aide said on Sunday.

The widow of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos had just returned to the capital after a lengthy road trip from the province of Ilocos Norte, over 300km north of Manila, when she decided to check in to a hospital, said her media consultant Lito Gorospe.

‘She was suffering from severe fatigue, so she decided to be confined,’ he told media, reports The Straits Times.

He declined to comment on the condition of the 84-year-old Marcos, who is a legislator representing the province of Ilocos Norte, home to her husband’s family.

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