DOH submits COVID-19 vaccine procurement docs to COA

DOH officer-in-charge answers questions from the media on December 15, 2022.

Department of Health

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health on Thursday submitted documents related to the country’s COVID-19 vaccine procurement to the Commission on Audit. 

The DOH submitted the documents a day after the Senate blue ribbon committee conducted a hearing on COVID-19 vaccine procurement contracts. 

“The department is ready to deal with any question about the procurement of vaccines because we are confident that all the processes carried out by the government in the purchase of vaccines that will protect our citizens are in accordance with the law,” DOH officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said in Filipino. 

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