Garin, 4 others indicted for graft, illegal use of public funds

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THE Office of the Ombudsman has filed charges of graft and illegal use of public funds against former health secretary now Iloilo Representative Janette Garin and four others in relation to the procurement of the controversial Dengvaxia vaccines.

The Ombudsman said the funds were used for the purchase of Dengvaxia vaccines in December 2015 and the implementation of school-based immunization for dengue despite it not being part of the EPI as well as the list under the Volume 1 of the Philippine National Drug Formulary .The anti-graft court said that under Executive 49 series of 1993, the PNDF’s Volume 1 should serve as the basis for the procurement of drug products by the government.

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