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Free hospitalization for poor Filipinos in 2017 — DOH chief

John Unson - Philstar.com
Free hospitalization for poor Filipinos in 2017 � DOH chief

The Health department chief said that poor patients will no longer be billed by government hospitals as the agency has a bigger budget next year. Jonjon Vicencio/File

MAGUINDANAO — Health Secretary Paulyn Jean Rossel-Ubial announced Saturday in Shariff Aguak town that the government will start paying in 2017 the hospital bills and medicines of poor Filipinos.
 
The Health secretary was the keynote speaker in the 2016 year-end gathering in Shariff Aguak of employees of the Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO).
 
The IPHO operates a hospital in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao which serves poor Muslim and Christian patients mostly from towns in the second district of the province.
 
She said the Department of Health (DOH) is capable of taking care of the hospital bills and medicines of poor Filipinos owing to its bigger budget starting next year.
 
A total of P96.336 billion is allocated for the DOH in the 2017 national budget, which includes funds for the construction of additional health facilities and drug rehabilitation centers.
 
Ubial said poor patients in government hospitals do not even have to present Philhealth cards when they avail of assistance. She added that poor patients will no longer be billed by government hospitals.
 
 
Ubial said President Rodrigo Duterte is keen on implementing the program to help poor Filipinos in all parts of the country.
 
She said Philhealth will remain a partner of government hospitals in serving the poor.

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