Vice President Leni Robredo on Sunday called on the government to look into the effects of a wrongly administered dengue vaccine on the health of hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren in the country and ensure that those who bungled the immunization program would be held liable.
The Department of Health (DOH) suspended the P3.5-billion immunization program on Friday, two days after Sanofi Pasteur announced that Dengvaxia could worsen the effects of dengue on people who had not been previously afflicted by the disease.
“This should be seriously studied and those who should be held accountable must be held accountable,” Robredo said on her weekly radio program.
The Department of Health (DOH) suspended the P3.5-billion immunization program on Friday, two days after Sanofi Pasteur announced that Dengvaxia could worsen the effects of dengue on people who had not been previously afflicted by the disease.
“This should be seriously studied and those who should be held accountable must be held accountable,” Robredo said on her weekly radio program.
What happens to the kids?The “most important thing,” she said, was to “get the answers” to questions about the effects of Dengvaxia on the health of the schoolchildren who had received the vaccine.
“The parents of the children … they need to know what to do. If there really is a bad effect, what can be done to save their children?” Robredo said.
According to the DOH, more than 733,000 public school children aged 9 and above from Metro Manila, Central Luzon and Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
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