THE Department of Justice (DOJ) has ordered the withdrawal of reckless imprudence resulting in homicide charges filed against former Department of Health Secretary and now First District Iloilo Rep. Janette Garin and two other former health officials in connection with the alleged deaths of children inoculated with anti-dengue vaccine Dengvaxia.
THE Department of Justice has ordered the withdrawal of reckless imprudence resulting in homicide charges filed against former Department of Health Secretary and now First District Iloilo Rep. Janette Garin and two other former health officials in connection with the alleged deaths of children inoculated with anti-dengue vaccine Dengvaxia.
The DOJ held that the procedures undertaken by the respondents-appellants leading to the implementation of the program “do not exhibit inexcusable lack of precaution” to hold them liable for the crime. They added that their children died between seven days to 31 months after experiencing the symptoms. “However, notwithstanding the voluminous evidence submitted by complainant-appellees and the painstakingly review and assessment of the evidence n record, it cannot be established that there is any causal link between Dengvaxia vaccination and the deaths alleged in the complaint-affidavits,” the DOJ said.
It explained that the allegations in the complaints are not based on personal knowledge of the complainants but on the statements made during the joint hearings of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, the Committee on Health and Demography and Finance. “Therefore, under the premise and based on the totality of evidence, we cannot subscribe to the argument of complainants-appellees that the negligence on the part of the respondents-appellants, if any, is the proximate cause to the death of the children…,” the DOJ explained.
“Such passage of time materially broke the casual connection. Their deaths could be attributable to some other reasons,” the DOJ declared.
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