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Friday, June 26, 2009

Philippine Department of Health defends policy of keeping swine flu death a secret.

The DOH defended its move to keep secret, the occupation of the countries 1st H1N1 related death. The DOH Head, Dr. Duque, invoked their departments protocol in keeping identities of fatalities secret as justification in their practice of secrecy.

However, officials in the Congress, where the first fatality was later identified as connected to, reacted strongly and negatively to this saying that by witholding this information from the top officials , they put the rest of the employees in grave danger.

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