Two member of the House of Representatives have filed joint resolutions seeking to allocate the P1.16-billion refunded by dengue vaccine manufacturer Sanofi-Pasteur to the monitoring of 870,000 recipients and the autopsy those who died allegedly due to the vaccine. Deputy Majority Leader Aurelio Gonzales Jr. and Rep. Johnny Pimentel, chairman of the Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability, filed House Joint Resolutions Nos. The nearly similar resolutions are seeking the release of the refund to the Department of Health for its medical assistance program for the recipients of the Dengvaxia vaccine, most of them public schoolchildren. The Department of Health and the Department of Budget and Management will be required to submit detailed reports to the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance. Last February, the Philippine General Hospital announced that so far, three of 14 examined deaths could have “causal association” to the vaccine.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 15, 2018 10:18 UTC