FORMER Health Secretary Janette Garin should focus on answering allegations that she diverted the P10.6 billion fund for health insurance premiums of senior citizens in the country instead of resorting to diversionary tactics, Sen. Joseph Victor Ejercito said on Friday.

Ejercito, who heads the Senate Committee on Health and Demography, said the alleged diversion of funds for the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Philhealth) to the Department of Health (DOH) was done during Garin’s time as head of the department.

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