{"id":254281,"date":"2020-05-08T06:48:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T10:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=254281"},"modified":"2020-05-08T06:48:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T10:48:03","slug":"online-medical-aid-application-in-ncr-starts-may-11-pcso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/05\/08\/online-medical-aid-application-in-ncr-starts-may-11-pcso\/","title":{"rendered":"Online medical aid application in NCR starts May 11: PCSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_249102\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249102\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/pcso-gen-mgr-royina-garma-cltc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-249102\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/pcso-gen-mgr-royina-garma-cltc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/pcso-gen-mgr-royina-garma-cltc.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/pcso-gen-mgr-royina-garma-cltc-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-249102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garma said this is due to the suspension of operations of the agency&#8217;s main and extension offices due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak. (PNA file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) on Friday said it will only accept online applications for medical assistance of patients in Metro Manila starting next week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Effective Monday, May 11, filing and processing for medical assistance for confinement chemotherapy, dialysis, hemophilia and post-transplant medicines for NCR patients shall be done through online application only,&#8221; PCSO General Manager Royina Garma said in an advisory.<\/p>\n<p>Those seeking for medical assistance can go to the website of PCSO www.pcso.gov.ph and click E-Services and click NCR Online Application.<\/p>\n<p>Garma said this is due to the suspension of operations of the agency&#8217;s main and extension offices due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>She added that PCSO will continue to find ways and means to reach out to people and assist the national government in its fight against Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The agency, adhering and complying to the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act, emphasizes and strengthens this auxiliary role especially in providing healthcare to Filipinos, bearing a part of the weight and augmenting government efforts in these strained and challenging times,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>For queries contact the hotline numbers for Globe: 09178807150\/ 09273139380; for Smart: 09190683699\/ 09490310843 from Monday to Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) on Friday said it will only accept online applications for medical assistance of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":249102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-christopher-lloyd-caliwan","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254281","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=254281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254283,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254281\/revisions\/254283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}