PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte vowed to prioritize buying vaccines against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) from China and Russia, as he took a swipe at Western pharmaceutical companies asking for advance payment for their research […]
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte vowed to prioritize buying vaccines against the coronavirus disease 2019 from China and Russia, as he took a swipe at Western pharmaceutical companies asking for advance payment for their research and development efforts.
“In other countries, they want cash advance bago tayo deliver-an ng vaccine. Eh kung ganun, patay tayong lahat . Every Filipino will die I can assure you,” Duterte said. He noted that the country’s procurement law prohibited the Philippine government to buy products which were not yet on the market or yet to be produced.
“The procurement law of the Philippines, this country, does not allow you to buy something which is non-existent or to-be-produced as yet. It’s a very exacting law and you must always reckon with, you know, prosecution and going to jail,” he added, pertaining to Republic Act 9184 or the Government Procurement Reform Act.
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