Doctor testifies in Covid-19 vaccine trial

THE Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) has presented before the Quezon City-Regional Trial Court a doctor who claimed that his patient had suffered serious adverse effects after he was inoculated with a Covid-19 Pfizer vaccine.

Dr. John King Soliman, a member of PAO’s Forensics Division, was called to the witness stand during Friday’s resumption of the trial in connection with the petition for writ of injunction against mass Covid-19 vaccination for ages 5 to 11 years old before Judge Maria Cherell de CastroSansaet of RTC Branch 222.

However, due to the long-time taken in marking pieces of evidence during the trial, the judge ordered Soliman to continue with his testimony in the next hearing set for the middle of February.

However, Soliman’s judicial affidavit, a copy of which was obtained by The Manila Times, showed that he reviewed the medical records and conducted physical and mental examination on student Angelo James Parejas, 15, of Bulan, Sorsogon.

Soliman said the “patient suffered monoparesis (left lower extremity) secondary to acute encephalopathy most likely secondary to post-vaccine (Covid-19).”

“Significantly, Angelo James was an active and essentially normal child, but his health condition has drastically changed for the worse after his inoculation with Covid-19 Pfizer vaccine,” Soliman said in his sworn affidavit.

The Covid-19 vaccine “victim” was the first to have been presented before the court in December when he was accompanied by his grandmother Jocelyn Laurenciano and aunt Grace delos Reyes.