THE Aquino administration spent P3.5 billion for the last-minute procurement of a newly registered dengue vaccine and administered it on Filipino schoolchildren despite the objections of health experts and scientists, Sen. Richard Gordon claimed on Tuesday.

At the hearing of the Senate finance committee on the proposed 2017 budget of the Department of Health (DOH), Gordon questioned health officials about the vaccine procured by the agency just three months after it was registered with the Philippine Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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