Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV claims Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte ain’t fooling ay one with bic laim that he resigned from his post out of delicadeza
Senators Risa Hontiveros and Francis Pangilinan on Friday assailed Sen. Richard Gordon’s handling of the Senate blue ribbon committee’s hearing last Thursday on the dengue vaccine controversy.
French drug manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur has had a string cases in the past, even up to last Oct. where they were made to pay tens to hundreds of millions of dollars for various serious offenses ranging from bribery, false claims to compensations for birth defects and none of which reached former Pres. Benigno Aquino III.
Senator Frank Drilon on Thursday said former president Noynoy Aquino should not be faulted for his decision to approve the purchase of Dengavaxia dengue vaccine in 2015.
Senator Joel Villanueva “walked out” of the Senate hearing on dengue vaccine mess Thursday just an hour after the start of proceeding.
Besides possible refund being exacted by no less than President Duterte from French pharmaceutical company.
Former President Benigno Aquino III and two his key Cabinet officials, former Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa and Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Sec. Florencio Abad have been inivted to appear in the Senate’s continuing investigation on the defective dengue fever vaccine.
Blue ribbon committee chair Sen. Richard Gordon wants former President Benigno Aquino III to testify before them on the procurement of the P3.5-billion dengue vaccine during the last few months of his incumbency.
Sen. Richard Gordon claimed that people have become afraid of getting state-sponsored inoculations after Sanofi admitted that the P3.5 billion worth of dengue vaccines the government administered to over 700,000 schoolchildren were defective.
The Aquino administration wanted as much as P5 billion allocation for the dengue vaccination program, Sen. Richard Gordon on Sunday revealed.
