Senate Minority Leader Frank Drilon on Sunday warned the Department of Health (DOH) that barring several companies from procuring vaccines for their employees is patently “illegal and unauthorized” and can expose them to legal liabilities.
Drilon was reacting to news reports that the Department of Health (DOH) had submitted to the President a draft administrative order that will ban several private companies from procuring their own Covid-19 vaccines.
“I am deeply disturbed by this report. If indeed such a draft administrative order exists, that is a clear violation of the Covid-19 Vaccination Act of 2021. Such a policy is discriminatory and morally unacceptable,” Drilon said.
“The DOH does not have the authority to do that,” he said in a statement on Sunday.
In the alleged draft administrative order circulating in the social media, it is provided for that “the NTF, together with the DOH shall review the requests of private entities to procure vaccines to ensure that private entities who will be part of the agreement are not in any way related to the tobacco industry, products covered under EO 51 series of 1986 or the “national Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes, breastmilk Supplement and Other Related Products” or other industries in conflict with public health.”
“The law does not discriminate against or exclude companies based on their products, services or lines of business,” said Drilon.
“The supposed administrative order, therefore, is discriminatory and it would go beyond the law and would constitute an actionable wrong,” he said.
“Who is playing God here once more?” Drilon asked.
“Please stop playing God. This is not the time for politics and selfish agenda. It is our moral responsibility to share the vaccine,” he added.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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