Senators on Monday asserted that the Food and Drug Administration should allow the private sector and local government units to procure COVID-19 vaccines directly from vaccine manufacturers.
“Bakit ang national government gusto i-monopolize ang pag-purchase LGUs at private sector to do their own purchases?” Recto said during the Senate Committee of the Whole’s inquiry into the status of the government’s COVID-19 vaccination program. “The issue here is why is it that the national government would want to impose this rule of an EUA that would give birth to a monopoly, which is not good as a matter of policy,” the minority leader stressed.
Domingo further said that vaccine manufacturers would not take responsibility for their products, while the national government will take responsibility for using a product that is still under development. But senators pointed out that some LGUs have already procured COVID-19 vaccines for their respective constituents due to the government’s slow procurement process.
Abolish FDA nalang. Walang silbi and biased pa