{"id":187019,"date":"2018-10-26T03:15:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=187019"},"modified":"2018-10-26T03:15:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:15:01","slug":"pcso-posts-p48-b-revenues-in-3rd-quarter-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/26\/pcso-posts-p48-b-revenues-in-3rd-quarter-of-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"PCSO posts P48-B revenues in 3rd quarter of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LEGAZPI CITY<\/strong>&#8212; The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) reported a total revenue of PHP48 billion from January to September this year, up PHP9.7 billion, or 25 percent from PHP38.2 billion in the same period of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The amount represents the combined earnings of PCSO from all its products: Lotto, Keno, Sweepstakes, and Small-Town Lottery (STL).<\/p>\n<p>PCSO General Manager Alexander Balutan reported Thursday the office\u2019s accomplishments to Bicol stakeholders in a \u201cSama-samang Talakayan at the La Piazza Convention Center, this city.<\/p>\n<p>Balutan urged the media to help disseminate projects, efforts, program of the government &#8211; the PCSO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are here today to give transparency to the people.\u201d Balutan said.<\/p>\n<p>Balutan added the increase in revenue shows the government\u2019s intensified effort to get rid of illegal gambling.<\/p>\n<p>He also assured that as PSCO generates more revenues, it would be able to serve more beneficiaries.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Nelly Loyola, PCSO Albay manager in an interview said PCSO has extended PHP86.3 million worth of medical assistance to 6,562 patients in the first 9 months in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor our individual Medical Assistance Program (IMAP), we already extended for Albay PHP74.1-million for 4,645 patients; for Catanduanes PHP4.9-million for 598 patients and for Masbate, PHP7.3-million for 1,319 patients.\u201d Loyola added.<\/p>\n<p>Loyola added the nature of requests include confinement, dialysis and chemotherapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEGAZPI CITY&#8212; The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) reported a total revenue of PHP48 billion from January to September this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":35451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-connie-calipay","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}