Former President Benigno S. Aquino III justified the use of government savings to procure the now-controversial vaccine Dengvaxia, during Thursday’s Senate investigation on the P3.5 billion anti-dengue immunization program of the government. Aquino said he gave the green light for the purchase of the vaccine using the “unutilized” funds for 2015 because the savings were set to expire at the end of that year. “If by December 31, you do not utilize these unutilized funds, it reverts back to the national treasury, then how do you fund it? You can go and ask for a supplemental budget, which requires new sources of revenue,” Aquino told senators. December 1, you met in Paris then the Saro was released and the funds were issued later on.)

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 14, 2017 06:50 UTC