MANILA, Philippines — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday said that vaccination is the “personal autonomy” of a person, after a bill mandating COVID-19 inoculation was filed before the House of Representatives.
FDA Director-General Eric Domingo said that mandatory vaccination is “very debatable” because vaccines should only be given upon the consent of beneficiaries.
“Very debatable ‘yan (That is very debatable) because this is really personal autonomy, to have someone, being a healthy person and then being injected with something,” Domingo told ABS-CBN News Channel.
“Vaccines, we give to healthy people. So usually meron kang level of autonomy…
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