Latest in expired medicinesPublic health expert Dr. Tony Leachon is urging Health Secretary Edwin Mercado to implement a real-time medicine tracking and deployment system, coordinate with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to audit the quality of procured drugs, and publicly demand accountability from officials…
Health Secretary Teodoro “Ted” Herbosa and 16 other Department of Health officials were slapped Tuesday afternoon with a fresh batch of criminal and administrative complaints before the Office of the Ombudsman — this time over more than P1.4 billion worth of medicines and vaccines that allegedly…
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Thursday, December 11, condemned the Department of Health (DOH) after a Commission on Audit (COA) report revealed ₱134.2 million worth of expired and nearly expired medicines under DOH Secretary Ted Herbosa’s watch. In its annual audit report for the DOH in 2024, the…
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