“Every Filipino, regardless of status in life, should have equal access to healthcare. This is the essence of Kalusugan Pangkalahatan,” Secretary of Health Enrique Ona said.
The Department of Health (DOH) today reiterated that no patient seeking medical help should be turned away by any health facility, government or private. More so, if the patient’s condition is considered an emergency case. This, after reports circulated in the news and social media that a patient died after being turned away by a private hospital when the patient’s family failed to produce the amount required by the hospital as deposit.
The health chief clarified, “The law states that all cases should be treated and admitted, if necessary, by a hospital.”
One of the thrusts of UHC (Universal Health Care) is to improve access to quality hospitals and other health facilities. Under Health Facility Enhancement Program (HFEP), which is one of the major pillars of KP, the DOH is continually modernizing the government health facilities to improve access to quality health services and to attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) particularly on the reduction of Maternal Mortality and Infant Mortality. From its implementationin 2010 to 2014, HFEP has received increasing funding for 8,453 HFEP-funded projects. These were implemented in 6,911 health facilities – 761 LGU hospitals and 70 DOH hospitals; 3,395 rural health units (RHUs) and 2,685 barangay health stations (BHSs).
HFEP prioritized upgrading of primary and secondary health facilities to improve access to health care at grassroots level, and to reinforce tertiary health facilities.
In addition to health facility improvement, the DOH has the Medical Assistance Program (MAP) amounting to P3 billion to assist indigent patients.
“MAP is made available to all DOH hospitals like Philippine Heart Center, and local government unit (LGU) hospitals like Quezon City General Hospital, Sampaloc District Hospital and San Juan Medical Center to assist patients who are most in need, including walk-in patients. DOH is against any palakasan system. For MAP utilization, the DOH, as in the past, looks at the poor as a medical assistance priority”, the health chief concluded.
September 18 –
International Equal Pay Day
“Increase wages now,
more than other cost items.
For widespread, practical equality!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association.
Accept the National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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October –
Monthly Observances:
Industry and Commerce Safety Month
National Statistics Month
Local Government Month
Consumer Welfare Month
Cooperative Month
National Quality and Productivity Improvement Month
National Health and Wellness Tourism Month
National Indigenous Peoples Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Elderly Filipino Week
Week 2: National Health Education Week
Local Government Week
National Mental Health Week
October 17-23:
National Week for Overcoming Extreme Poverty
October 18 – 24:
United Nations Week
Last Week:
Nurses’ Week
Consumers’ Protection Week
Week of the 4th Sunday:
Barrio Farmers’ Week
Daily Observances:
First Monday (Oct 4): Universal Children’s Day i
n the Philippines
Oct 5: National Teachers’ Day
Oct 10: Local Government Day
Third Thursday (Oct 14): Conflict Resolution Day
Oct 21: Tenants’ Emancipation day
Oct 24: United Nations Day
Oct 29: National Indigenous People’s Thanksgiving Day
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