DOH, may paglilinaw sa puna ng COA sa umano'y mga expired at hindi nagamit na gamot
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00:00 The health department clarified that less than 1 percent of the 7.4 billion pesos of medicines that were listed by the Commission on Audit have expired.
00:11 According to the DOH, only 0.03 percent of their inventory has expired while 1.16 percent is about to enter.
00:21 The DOH clarified that 95 percent of the listed medicines of COA are not expired but slow-moving or overstock inventories.
00:33 The health department said that most of the expired medicines were not used due to the low number of patients going to the hospital due to fear of COVID-19.
00:45 While other expired stocks in DOH regional offices were not distributed due to the rejection of implementing units that received new stocks,
00:58 DOH distributed 86 percent of inventories to Centers for Health Development and other health facilities.
01:07 The target is to distribute the remaining 14 percent before the end of the year.