ANTI-corruption advocates on Tuesday urged Health Secretary Francisco Duque 3rd to place under preventive suspension several officials of the Department of Health (DoH) involved in the anti-dengue immunization program in 2016.

The Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) wants health officials who played a role in the procurement and allowed Dengvaxia to be administered to school children aged nine years old and above be suspended until the investigation into the dengue vaccine controversy is completed.

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