The Ombudsman has filed graft and technical malversation charges against former health chief and now Iloilo Rep. Janet Garin over the controversial school-based dengue vaccination program during the Aquino administration.
The Ombudsman has filed graft and technical malversation charges against former health chief and now Iloilo Rep. Janette Garin over the controversial school-based dengue vaccination program during the Aquino administration.
READ: The Ombudsman indicts former health chief & now Iloilo Rep. Janette Garin for graft and technical malversation over the controversial school-based dengue vaccination program during the Aquino administration. |According to the Ombudsman, these officials had a hand in the realignment of the department's budget for the purchase and roll-out of Dengvaxia vaccines for public school students.
However, the Ombudsman noted in the charge sheet filed on Tuesday that Dengvaxia was not part of the program. Over 800,000 grade schoolers had already been vaccinated when Sanofi announced that Dengvaxia could cause severe dengue if the vaccinee had not been infected by the virus before immunization.
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