Ah ganun? SANOFI na MISMO nagbigay warning tungkol sa Dengvaxia nagmamadali kayo magkapera, eh anong nangyari sa mga barangay centers nyo? nakatiwangwang! Di pa rin makakaligtas sa kaso! – Paula Defensor Knack (fb)
Former Health Secretary Janette Garin continues to deny that there was anyone who died from the Dengvaxia anti-dengue vaccine.
Former Health Secretary Janette Garin gestures during the Inquiry into the implementation of the DOH Health Facilities Enhancement Program including the alleged irregularities in the Barangay Health Stations Project in Pasay city, July 4, 2018. (Czar Dancel / MANILA BULLETIN)
Former Health Secretary Janette Garin
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This is one of the points she raised in her counter-affidavit which sought to dismiss the complaints filed by the families of eight dead children who got inoculated with the vaccine.
“The separate death certificates of the complainants’ children unequivocally show that their respective children died due to various health conditions which they develop without any material connection to the date of the vaccination,” read the counter-affidavit she filed on Monday before the panel of prosecutors conducting the preliminary investigation of the complaints.
With this, Garin appealed to the panel not to accept the autopsies conducted by the Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) forensics team led by Dr. Erwin Erfe which claimed that the children’s deaths is connected with the vaccine.
“The findings cited in the PAO Report and Memorandum is not supported by medical and scientific evidence,” she said.
“Moreover, the ‘findings’ are worthless because they were derived from a totally out of protocol procedure not sanctioned by the science behind pathology or the casual study of disease,” she added.