00:00A group of concerned Department of Health personnel claim the department wasted medicines and vaccines worth 1.5 billion pesos.
00:08This prompted the group to file a graft complaint before the Office of the Ombudsman against Health Secretary Teodoro Erbosa
00:14and 16 others.
00:16The group files the complaint anonymously due to fear of reprisals from health officials.
00:20The concerned DOH personnel allege high-value commodities including contraceptives and mental health-related medicine such as antipsychotics and anticonvulsants
00:29worth 68 million pesos expired from December 2025 to March 2026 inside their National Warehouse.
00:36Last February, 24 million pesos worth of psychiatric injectables also expired.
00:41The DOH's National Inventory Report in January showed around 1.3 billion pesos worth of vaccines were left undelivered.
00:48Regional warehouses also reported expired tuberculosis and measles vaccines.
00:53But instead of authorizing emergency distribution of near-expiry medicines, the officials allegedly chose to rush the disposal of these
01:00medicines and quote, hide the evidence from media scrutiny.
01:03The complainants want Erbosa and the other respondents placed under preventive suspension and ultimately dismissed from service.
01:10Erbosa and other officials face a separate graft complaint involving 1.8 billion pesos worth of mobile clinics.
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