Garin, other Health execs charged over ‘Dengvaxia deaths’

CRIMINAL charges were filed by the Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) on Thursday against former Health Secretary Janette Garin and other former officials of the Department of Health over the death of four children inoculated with Dengvaxia.

Charged at the Department of Justice were Garin, Socorro Lupisan and Maria Rosario Capeding of the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM); and other officials involved in the purchase of the vaccine-- Vicente Belizario Jr., Kenneth Hartigan-Go, Gertardo Bayugo, Lyndon Lee Suy, Irma Ascuncion, Julius Lecciones, Joyce Ducusin, Rosalind Vianzon, and Mario Baguilod.