Quality health care for everyone

MANILA, Philippines - Wonderful things happen when you are in perfect health. A great body is not a luxury but a necessity so people can all live happy and meaningful lives.

A number of studies show that health and wellness is among the top concerns of Filipinos, next to work-life balance and job security. After all, being physically fit means being able to spend more quality time with the family as well as enjoy activities with friends and colleagues.

However, it is a sad reality that for most Filipinos, health management is steeply priced. This inaccessibility to basic health products leads many to rampant self-medication, non-compliance to treatment, and medical consultation only when symptoms of ailments are past treatment.

Today, generic medicine that are priced cheaper than leading brands have been presented as a solution to this concern. However, people are not comfortable switching to generic drugs easily due to bad feedback in the past, related to questionable efficacy and poor quality of certain formulations.

To overcome these challenges, Watsons exerted utmost effort to look for the right pharmaceutical partners and bring together quality generic medicine to the market.

This is consistent with its mission of inspiring people to live meaningful and healthy lives, and in its aim to provide added value to shoppers in managing their wellness issues.

Watson’s narrowed down three salient points in its criteria as standard: first, that these drugs are manufactured by a trusted pharmaceutical company; next, that all should be FDA approved; and lastly, that they be sold by a reputable pharmaceutical network.

Trusted partners

Helping Watsons achieve its goal of making a “healthy” archipelago are trusted names in the pharmaceutical trade here and abroad. A new addition to its roster of trusted affiliates is Now Generics, the American outfit that espouses to “nourish your passions.”

Watsons, being Asia’s leading pharmacy brand, only carries generic medicine that satisfy these criteria. It just launched its “Buy Generics and Save” advocacy that will ensure that consumers will be educated in order to know the difference between trusted and questionable generics.

Part of this campaign is making it easier for customers to look for the generic counterpart of their branded medications. Starting June, Watsons will bring together all its generic offers in a special, highly visible Buy Generics counter inside the pharmacy.

The new health section will carry the Watsons Compliance Packs (for chronic and acute diseases), Watsons Health Packs (for common ailments like headache, stomach pains, allergies, etc) and a wide range of generic products only from trusted manufacturers like Unilab, Ritemed, Pharex and NOW Generics. This will provide more options to customers on top of other branded products that are available.

Watsons is also the new home of several top-selling NOW Foods products like Acai Juice, Calcium and Magnesium, Cholesterol Support, CoQ10, Goji Juice, Joint Support, and Salmon Oil.

With over 250 stores in the Philippines, Watsons joins hands with NOW Foods to ensure that every Filipino can get access to nature’s nutrition for optimal wellness.

To find the right nourishment for your own passion, visit Watsons, the exclusive distributor of NOW Foods premium health products around the country. For more information about NOW Foods and updates from NOW Foods’ Filipino brand ambassadors, visit http://www.nowfoods.com.

Moreover, consumers get to avail themselves of Watsons real value add-ons. Each one gets exclusive health-related services at no added cost.

Counseling and education from well-trained licensed pharmacists is readily given. Then there are medical services like blood pressure reading to scheduled bone-scan examinations.

There are also BMI analyses, glucose check, derma consultations, and a whole lot more, plus the mobile health advisor for compliance and refill notifications.

Watsons will be able to provide patients with a variety of quality natural products that are specifically formulated to help support and promote optimum health through good nutrition. It is a pioneer in coming up with new and innovative concepts bearing an extensive range of health solutions, becoming a competent frontline and advocate of healthy living.

As the primary destination for health and wellness, Watsons simply brings more to life, delivering only the best health, wellness, and beauty solutions to each and every customer. Awareness and education on the chronicity of a disease, its complications if not controlled, the need for lifestyle modification (especially on practical diet and nutrition) coupled with physical activity encouragement are parameters that needs to be addressed by each individual.

Watsons Personal Care Stores (Phils.) Inc. is part of the Health and Beauty Store chain of A.S Watson, the largest health and beauty retailer in the world. For more information, visit http://www.watsons.com.ph.