Two senators on Wednesday hailed President Rodrigo Duterte’s move to form a panel of foreign experts to probe the Aquino administration’s procurement of the dengue vaccine Dengvaxia, and said they hoped that the probe would uncover truth untainted by politics. The Aquino administration purchased Dengvaxia for a mass immunization program in 2016. Case vs officialsSen. Sherwin Gatchalian said the findings of the panel could support the case being built up against officials involved in the purchase of the vaccine. “This three-man task force will be coming from outside of the Philippines” so that the probe would “not be tainted by politics,” he added. The Aquino administration should have been more careful about acquiring a product that had not been thoroughly tested, he said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 09, 2018 23:15 UTC