Duterte to tap
University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital (PGH) prompted Duterte “to seek further advice” through the foreign panel of experts.
“The problem of the President is although there is he knows that expert witnesses can cancel out each other’s testimonies,” he added.
from the experts from the PAO and the PGH, he is constrained to seek further advice from disinterested parties,” Roque said.
According to him, the foreign experts must have no ties with the Philippine government and the “He [Duterte] requested that the panel of experts should be foreign, should have no links absolutely with the Philippine government... at siyempre dapat walang links sa “Pa ki king gan po ni ya ang report at opinyon ng mga ekspertong iton ang maka-usad na tayo dito sa isyu ng Dengvaxia. Sang a yon po, nag-aantay pa ng mas malinaw na ang ating Presidente kaya nga po bubuuin niya itong three-man panel na experts
paramalamantalagakunganoangdapatgawindito sa Dengvaxia [He will listen to the report and opinion of the experts for us to move on from this issue. For now, the President is just waiting for more transparent three-panel of experts for us to know what we can do about this Dengvaxia controversy],” he added.
- cine as a breakthrough in combating dengue, which kills hundreds of people in the Philippines, mostly children, every year.
But the French company set off a panic when in November it said a new analysis showed that the vaccine could lead to more severe symptoms for people who had not been infected with the dengue virus.
In February, the Department of Health (DoH) - ous causes some time after receiving Dengvaxia, only three died of dengue, but none of the deaths could directly be attributed to the vaccine.
- retary Janette Garin and several others over the deaths of some schoolchildren administered with the vaccine.
More than 830,000 public school students were injected with Dengvaxia as part of the anti-dengue immunization program.
The Philippine government suspended the vaccination program in December 2017 and threatened