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The Department of Health, under the leadership of then Secretary Janette L. Garin, deliberately exposed
the lives of more or less 833,000 children aged 9-14 to danger in its anti-dengue mass vaccination
program which costed the government 3.5 Billion Pesos. DOH, Secretary Garin and other government
officials administering a drug, which was still undergoing clinical trial, with no proven safety and efficacy.
The program recklessly implemented the life-threatening drug with gross disregard for human lives and
ta the expense of innocent and unsuspecting children, mostly from poor and downtrodden families. The
mass vaccination program violated medical protocol and implemented it without the appropriate
screening process thru available diagnostic tests and informed consent.
Anjielica M. Pestilos, a healthy ten year old girl who had no history of any serious illness including
Dengue paid the ultimate price. As will be established, Dengvaxia is a lethal combination of yellow fever
virus, and dengue virus. The inoculation/injection of this vaccine which contains these two viruses, to
Anjielica, given her pre-existing Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and the consequent viscerotropic-like
disease, is what precipitated her death.
ISSUE
Whether the respondent are liable for Anjielica M. Pestilos death and whether the plaintiffs are entitled
to damages for the negligence of the respondent to follow medical protocol.
ARGUMENTS
DISCUSSION