A COMPLAINT in connection with the Dengvaxia controversy has been filed anew against former health secretary Janette L. Garin and others over the “untimely” death of alleged Dengvaxia-vaccine victim Kendrick G. Gotoc.
The Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) said in a report that Mr. Gotoc, a physician, suffered from multi-organ failure, multi-organ dysfunction and hemorrhage due to the Dengvaxia vaccine, with which he was inoculated three times.
According to relatives of Mr. Gotoc, he started showing signs of declining health in January 2018. The family later said Mr. Gotoc had symptoms similar to those of other Dengvaxia recipients in March that year.
“Dr. Kendrick had rashes all over his body. His fingernails were also turning black,” the PAO report said, adding that he had noticeably lost weight.
PAO recommended that “complaints for Reckless Imprudence Resulting (in) Homicide and Violation of the Anti-Torture Act of 2009” be filed against the respondents.
Also among the respondents are incumbent Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III and other officials of the Department of Health (DoH), Sanofi Pasteur, Inc. and Zuellig Pharma Corporation.
PAO also said the respondents “violated Republic Act No. 9745 otherwise known as the Anti-Torture Act of 2009, by intentionally inoculating the Dengvaxia recipients with an unsafe product undergoing clinical trial, which caused them not only severe pain, exhaustion, disability or dysfunction of one or more parts of the body, but untimely death.” — Charmaine A. Tadalan

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