Former senator and Health Secretary Dr. Juan Flavier passed away at around 4 p.m. Thursday. He was 79 years old.
Flavier's daughter Joy Flavier-Alampay confirmed to GMA News that her father succumbed to multiple organ failure and sepsis brought about by pneumonia.
A separate report from dzBB's Nimfa Ravelo quoted Roby Alampay, Flavier's son-in-law, as saying that the former senator had been confined at the National Kidney Transplant Institute since September 11 and was kept in the hospital's intensive care unit.
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