Former President Benigno S. Aquino III is back at the Senate on Thursday, not as a senator, but as a resource person in the ongoing probe on the controversial anti-dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia. Aquino, who was senator before he was elected president in 2010, was among those invited by the Senate blue ribbon committee conducting the investigation. The former leader and some of his Cabinet men were being blamed for allowing the implementation of the P3.5 billion anti-dengue immunization program using Dengvaxia during his term. READ: Pharma firm issues caution on use of anti-dengue vaccineAquino, in a text message on Tuesday, promised to tell the truth about the controversy. READ: Aquino vows to tell truth about Dengvaxia programAccording to the DOH, more than 700,000 people had already been vaccinated by Dengvaxia before the program was suspended last December 1 over safety reasons.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 14, 2017 01:07 UTC