{"id":21731,"date":"2014-08-13T20:40:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T12:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=21731"},"modified":"2025-01-13T10:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T15:31:18","slug":"senator-pushes-accessible-aid-for-filipinos-with-royal-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/13\/senator-pushes-accessible-aid-for-filipinos-with-royal-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator pushes accessible aid for Filipinos with &#8216;Royal Disease&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13718\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13718\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/grace-poe-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13718\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/grace-poe-4.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Grace Poe - Llamanzares. Photo from Poe's official Facebook page.<\/p srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/grace-poe-4.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/grace-poe-4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy metformin online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urologicalcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/metformin.html\">https:\/\/www.urologicalcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/metformin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>&#8221; width=&#8221;960&#8243; height=&#8221;640&#8243; \/><\/a> Sen. Grace Poe &#8211; Llamanzares. Photo from Poe&#8217;s official Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2014 Senator Grace Poe filed on Wednesday a bill that seeks to aid indigent Filipinos who have Hemophilia and other bleeding disorders.<\/p>\n<p>Poe\u2019s Senate Bill 2343 or \u201cAn Act to assist Persons with Hemophilia and other disorders\u201d intends to establish four treatment centers in state-owned hospitals &#8212; one in the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) for Metro Manila, and one each for Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy tamiflu online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urologicalcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/tamiflu.html\">https:\/\/www.urologicalcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/tamiflu.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>According to Poe, the amount of one hundred million pesos shall be appropriated after the enactment of the said bill for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Hemophilia or known as the \u201cRoyal Disease\u201d is historically identified as an illness that struck the Royal families in the west during the 19th and 20th century. It is a group of rare and inherited bleeding disorders where the patient\u2019s blood lacks the ability to clot normally. Bleeding of internal organs and joints for unknown reasons are results of the said disease.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy propecia online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urologicalcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/propecia.html\">https:\/\/www.urologicalcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/propecia.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Today, it can still be called as the \u201cRoyal Disease\u201d because of the cost it takes for a specific treatment.<\/p>\n<p>A single treatment for a mild bleed can cost between 15,000 to 50,000 pesos while complete treatment could have a hefty price.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Hemophilia Association of the Philippines for Love and Service (HAPLOS), around 10,000 Filipinos are afflicted with this rare disorder.<\/p>\n<p>Although effective methods to treat patients with Hemophilia and other bleeding disorders are available in the country, 95 percent of the patients who are poor cannot afford a session treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith proper treatment and care, persons with Hemophilia and other bleeding disorders need not suffer much.\u201d Poe said.<\/p>\n<p>Poe proposed a creation of small council that will continue on studying and conducting research for various treatments, detection, and approaches to deal with the rare disease.<\/p>\n<p>The council, according to Poe, is composed of a representative from the Department of Health (DOH), medical practitioner or a representative from the academe that specializes in Hemophila and bleeding disorders, and one representative from an organization of patients or people suffering from Hemophilia and other bleeding disorders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an extremely difficult and trying condition and we must enable our afflicted countrymen to receive due treatment and care,\u201d Poe said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 Senator Grace Poe filed on Wednesday a bill that seeks to aid indigent Filipinos who have Hemophilia and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21731","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=21731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283483,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21731\/revisions\/283483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}