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Sep 20, 2021

VERA FILES FACT SHEET: How did Pharmally break procurement requirements in P8.7 billion pandemic contracts with DBM?

The Commission on Audit (COA) report about the P67.32 billion "deficiencies" in the pandemic response funds of the Department of Health (DOH) triggered a congressional investigation on the transfer of P42 billion of the amount to the Procurement Service in the Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM). This, in turn, led to the discovery of P8.68 billion in supply contracts with Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp.

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VERA FILES FACT SHEET: How did Pharmally break procurement requirements in P8.7 billion pandemic contracts with DBM?

Sep 8, 2021

VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Five things about the ICC report on victims’ representations

Families of persons killed in anti-drug operations under the Duterte administration’s war on drugs regained hope for justice following the release of a report focused on assistance for them by the Victims Participation and Reparations Section (VPRS), an independent office of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

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VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Five things about the ICC report on victims’ representations

Sep 7, 2021

VERA FILES FACT SHEET: What lowering age restrictions on e-cigarette smoking means for the youth

Lowering the minimum age of persons who can buy, sell, or use vapes and electronic cigarettes to 18 years old means giving younger people access to products with adverse health effects and which could lead to substance abuse, medical and health experts say.

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VERA FILES FACT SHEET: What lowering age restrictions on e-cigarette smoking means for the youth

Aug 26, 2021

VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Inside the proposed health agencies for virology and disease control

Almost two years into the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, variants of the novel coronavirus are getting “fitter and better” at transmission in humans, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

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VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Inside the proposed health agencies for virology and disease control

Aug 26, 2021

VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Can Duterte stop publication of COA reports?

The Commission on Audit (COA) recently became the second independent constitutional body that got a tongue-lashing from President Rodrigo Duterte. After castigating the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on several occasions for its critical stand on his war on drugs, the president has turned his ire on COA over its findings noting “deficiencies” in P67.32 billion of the Department of Health’s (DOH) spending of the COVID-19 response funds.

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