{"id":139337,"date":"2017-12-15T00:51:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T05:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=139337"},"modified":"2017-12-15T00:51:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T05:51:27","slug":"ubial-claims-solon-pressured-her-to-expand-dengvaxia-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/15\/ubial-claims-solon-pressured-her-to-expand-dengvaxia-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubial claims solon \u2018pressured\u2019 her to expand Dengvaxia coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_101175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101175\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/16831963_1493200390691208_3573421139953093717_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101175\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/16831963_1493200390691208_3573421139953093717_n.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Former Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial on Thursday claimed that a congressman \u201cpressured\u201d her to expand the government\u2019s dengue vaccine program despite her opposition to it. (Photo: Department of Health\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/16831963_1493200390691208_3573421139953093717_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/16831963_1493200390691208_3573421139953093717_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/16831963_1493200390691208_3573421139953093717_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Former Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial on Thursday claimed that a congressman \u201cpressured\u201d her to expand the government\u2019s dengue vaccine program despite her opposition to it. (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/OfficialDOHgov\/photos\/a.157979910879936.38217.156566631021264\/1493200390691208\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialDOHgov\/\">Department of Health\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Former Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial on Thursday claimed that a congressman \u201cpressured\u201d her to expand the government\u2019s dengue vaccine program despite her opposition to it.<\/p>\n<p>Ubial, during the Senate Blue Ribbon probe into the controversial Dengvaxia dengue vaccine, said that it was Iloilo Rep. Oscar Garin Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker is also the husband of Janette Garin, then Health Secretary during the Aquino administration. It was during her term when the dengue vaccines were purchased in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was pressured to expand to other areas,\u201d Ubial said noting that this happened during a congressional budget hearing last August 14, 2017 and could even be proven in the minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the representatives that asked me to buy more dengue vaccine and put it in the 2018 budget is no other than Oscar Richard Garin Jr.,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Ubial said that she believed her opposition to the vaccine prejudiced her confirmation as health secretary.<\/p>\n<p>It may be recalled that Garin\u2019s confirmation was rejected by the Commission on Appointments (CA) last October.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My confirmation as Secretary of Health, the DOH budget was being put at stake. It was very blatant in Congress. You get the tape recording of how they shouted at me, how they tried to blackmail me,\u201d Ubial told reporters in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Garin, however, said that she respected the Ubial\u2019s personal views but noted that her husband was not a member of the CA.<br \/>\n\u201cMy point here is the documents speak for itself. It\u2019s not pressure, it\u2019s not forced and we have nothing to do with the Commission on Appointments,\u201d Garin said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Former Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial on Thursday claimed that a congressman \u201cpressured\u201d her to expand the government\u2019s dengue vaccine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":101175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[38975,38973,38974],"class_list":["post-139337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-dengue-vaccine-program","tag-former-health-secretary-paulyn-ubial","tag-pressured","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}