Najib’s lawyer, Shafee Abdullah, told the court the legal team was informed that the Pekan MP’s blood pressure was experiencing “fluctuations” while the doctors have yet to determine the cause.

Shafee also said Najib will be transferred to the National Heart Institute (IJN) later today.

Asked by trial judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah, Shafee said Najib has been warded at Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL) and that the hospital did not issue a medical certificate.

The court fixed tomorrow for mention for the defence to update it on Najib’s condition.

Former Treasury deputy secretary-general Siti Zauyah Mohd Desa and AmBank branch manager R Uma Devi had been scheduled to testify today.

Yesterday, there was a half-day hearing after ad hoc prosecutor Gopal Sri Ram told the court that Najib needed to see a doctor.

Sri Ram said Najib’s health was “quite bad” due to adverse effects from a change in high blood pressure medicine.

Najib’s special officer, Mukhlis Maghribi, later said Najib underwent a scope procedure last week where a doctor discovered stomach ulcers. While it has been a recurring problem for the past 15 years, new ulcers were discovered, he said.

He claimed that Najib had requested to undergo further observation at HKL but the request was denied and he was discharged, while his medication was changed from the usual one he had been taking for years.

Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah later said Najib was admitted to HKL last Friday over an elective, non-urgent case. He said the specialists who attended to him were the heads of their respective fields.

Noor Hisham said the specialists who treated Najib had agreed to allow the former prime minister to be discharged.

According to him, the medicine prescribed to Najib after he was admitted was the same type as he had been taking previously.

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