In a statement, Garin welcomed the filing of the cases as an 'opportunity to put an end to the longstanding issue.'
MANILA — The Office of the Ombudsman has charged before the Sandiganbayan former Health Secretary and current Iloilo Rep. Janette Garin and several others with criminal charges over the purchase of Dengvaxia vaccines.
Except for Bayugo, the same co-accused were charged with Garin for illegal use of public funds. They were accused of causing the issuance of a SARO in favor of DOH in the amount of P3.556 billion to buy Dengvaxia vaccines in December 2015, when the vaccine was not listed in the Philippine National Drug Formulary, and the funds were supposed to go to the DOH’s expanded program on immunization.
In August, the Ombudsman junked criminal negligence raps against Garin and her co-respondents citing the failure of the complaint to show a “causal relation” between the vaccine and the deaths. The immunization program was also suspended, with an estimated P1.44 billion worth of vaccines undispensed as of June 2017, according to a report by the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group.In a statement, Garin welcomed the filing of the cases as an “opportunity to put an end to the longstanding issue…”
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