The Public Attorneys' Office (PAO) intends to file civil cases relating to Dengvaxia vaccine at the Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) today.
They will be joined by the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC), which will also file civil cases.
PAO will use as basis the story of 10-year-old Anjielica Pestilos.
She was among the 15 children who received shots of Dengvaxia and died afterwards.
PAO conducted autopsy on the remains of the 15 children.
As PAO moves against persons and entities behind the 2016 nationwide immunization of the Department of Health (DOH), the Department of Justice (DOJ) says, it is allowing PAO to conduct the autopsies on children whose deaths may be linked to Dengvaxia.
This comes amid objections of some quarters to PAO's investigations.
Meanwhile, at the House of Representstives' hearing on the Dengvaxia controversy, Sanofi Pasteur Asia Pacific Head Thomas Triomphe claimed, Dengvaxia remains over 90% effective in fighting dengue.
When asked if his figure considered the deaths of 3 Filipino children who died of dengue even after they received Dengvaxia shots manufactured by Sanofi, Triomphe said these cases are still consistent with the findings on the vaccine's efficacy.
Triomphe recalls there were 833,000 Filipino children who were immunized and the vaccine was supposedly found to have been effective on the cases of these kids.
