President Rodrigo Duterte told the National Bureau of Investigation to probe the Omnibus Corporation, the local distributor of the test kits purchased by the government for the Department of Health, for the alleged overpricing of its items.
“The NBI should study the matter very carefully […] Let’s look at it on what it is legally,” said Duterte in a late night address Monday. Senator Panfilo Lacson recently flagged the alleged overpricing, citing that an automated extraction machine from the manufacturer Sansure Biotech should only cost ₱1.75 million, but the one purchased by the government is ₱4 million per unit.claimed that Health Secretary Francisco Duque III centralized all the purchases of test kits and machines through the Omnibus Corporation, which the Budget Department identified as the exclusive distributor of Sansure Biotech.
Senator Franklin Drilon on probe vs local distributor of ‘overpriced’ test kits: I hope the statement of the President does not in any manner mean to absolve DOH Secretary Francisco Duque. I call for a fair and impartial investigation despite the President’s pronouncement
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