{"id":20329,"date":"2014-07-30T00:40:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T16:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=20329"},"modified":"2025-01-07T04:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T09:03:15","slug":"philhealth-to-cover-street-children-pwds-indigenous-people-doh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/30\/philhealth-to-cover-street-children-pwds-indigenous-people-doh\/","title":{"rendered":"PhilHealth to cover street children, PWDs, indigenous people \u2013 DOH"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11418\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PhilHealth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11418\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PhilHealth.jpg\" alt=\"PhilHealth. Photo courtesy of doh.gov.ph\" width=\"480\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PhilHealth.jpg 480w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PhilHealth-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PhilHealth. Photo courtesy of doh.gov.ph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Street children, persons with disabilities (PWDs), and even surrenderers and indigenous peoples (IPs) will be covered by PhilHealth (Philippine Health Insurance Corp.), according to the Department of Health (DOH).<\/p>\n<p>DOH Secretary Enrique T. Ona said there are still many poor Filipinos who are not yet covered by PhilHealth and there is a need to conduct a re-validation or revision of data starting from the last quarter of this year in order to cover the remaining poor Filipinos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy 2015, we will even be expanding the PhilHealth coverage.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy bactrim online <a href=\"https:\/\/drbrassie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/bactrim.html\">drbrassie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/bactrim.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> There are many of our poor Filipinos who are not yet covered by PhilHealth, for example, the disabled, our street children, surrenderers, and even indigenous peoples,&#8221; Dr.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy vidalista online <a href=\"https:\/\/drbrassie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/vidalista.html\">drbrassie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/vidalista.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Ona added.<\/p>\n<p>The beneficiaries are identified through the Department of Social Welfare and Development\u2019s (DWSD) National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR), the mechanism to identify the poorest families in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Ona noted that 14.72 million families, which translate into almost 50 million individuals belonging to the poorest of the poor and the not-so-poor, are now being covered by PhilHealth.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy ciprodex online <a href=\"https:\/\/drbrassie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/ciprodex.html\">drbrassie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/ciprodex.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This means that they are benefitting from the \u201cNo-Balance Billing\u201d policy in government hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>At present, 82 percent of the population have been covered by PhilHealth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Street children, persons with disabilities (PWDs), and even surrenderers and indigenous peoples (IPs) will be covered by PhilHealth &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,37,95],"tags":[6982,6985,6986,3776,6984,6983],"class_list":["post-20329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-health","category-news-ph","tag-coverage","tag-indigenous-people","tag-indigent","tag-philhealth","tag-pwd","tag-street-children","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20329","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280062,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20329\/revisions\/280062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}