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Public health expert urges DOH chief to fix agency’s broken drug procurement system before more medicines go to waste

Public health expert Dr. Tony Leachon is urging Health Secretary Edwin Mercado to implement a real-time medicine tracking and deployment system, coordinate with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to audit the quality of procured drugs, and publicly demand accountability from officials responsible for the ₱217 million in expired medicines and the additional ₱475 million at risk. In an interview on DZRH…

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