Forty-four million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been wasted due to expiration and operational wastage, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday.
DOH officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said 24 million doses have gone beyond their shelf life while 3.6 million doses have been affected by “operational wastage” caused by natural disasters, temperature excursion, and discoloration.
"This 44 million is 17.5% out of all those vaccines we have received for the country,” Vergeire said. She said at least four to five percent came from donations, and two percent from the national government procurement.in the country went to waste during the plenary deliberation of the DOH budget.
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