{"id":11109,"date":"2016-12-25T10:06:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T02:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=11109"},"modified":"2016-12-21T10:32:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T02:32:52","slug":"free-hospitalization-and-medicines-for-poor-filipinos-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/12\/25\/free-hospitalization-and-medicines-for-poor-filipinos-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Free hospitalization and medicines for poor Filipinos in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a news published by Manila Bulletin, Health Secretary Paulyn Jean Rosell-Ubial has made the announcement of the free medicine and hospitalization for the less fortunate, unemployed, and elderly people by 2017<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11110\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/DOH-philstar.jpg\" alt=\"doh-philstar\" width=\"600\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/DOH-philstar.jpg 600w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/DOH-philstar-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><em>By 2017, less fortunate Filipinos and the elderly will get to avail free medicines and hospitalization. Image from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/headlines\/2016\/12\/18\/1654653\/free-hospitalization-poor-filipinos-2017-doh-chief\">Philippine Star<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She made the announcement during a visit to the Integrated Provincial Hospital Office in Maguindanao where she launched the hospital\u2019s first CT scan machine.<\/p>\n<p>Ubial added that their department will procure commonly used medicines for distribution to hospitals under the government\u2019s <em>Medicine\u2019s Access Program<\/em>, so there\u2019s no need to buy in government agencies.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, President Rodrigo Duterte also set aside P5 billion for the medical expenses of the indigents without Philhealth membership, and that the Department of Health has a good financial standing that will enable government to subsidize its services.<\/p>\n<p>In a GMA news report, it has been said that this is the first time in DOH history, and that President Duterte has exerted all effort and has expected results\/changes the next day.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/headlines\/2016\/12\/18\/1654653\/free-hospitalization-poor-filipinos-2017-doh-chief\"><em>Philippine Star<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.mb.com.ph\/2016\/12\/18\/doh-free-medicines-hospital-bills-for-the-poor-in-2017\/\"><em>Manila Bulletin<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Secretary Paulyn Jean Rosell-Ubial has made the announcement of the free medicine and hospitalization for the less fortunate, unemployed, and elderly people by 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[894,301,1544,1545,1546],"class_list":["post-11109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-department-of-health","tag-doh","tag-free-hospitalization","tag-integrated-provincial-hospital","tag-philhealth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/DOH-philstar.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11111,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11109\/revisions\/11111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}