{"id":99071,"date":"2017-04-19T19:01:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T23:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=99071"},"modified":"2017-04-19T19:01:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T23:01:48","slug":"dswd-serves-2137-indigents-under-libreng-gamot-para-sa-masa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/19\/dswd-serves-2137-indigents-under-libreng-gamot-para-sa-masa\/","title":{"rendered":"DSWD serves 2,137 indigents under &#8220;Libreng Gamot Para sa Masa&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_99072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99072\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4746653392_cd0676b04a_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99072\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4746653392_cd0676b04a_z.jpg\" alt=\"The program, a project of President Rodrigo Duterte, has a PHP1 billion fund for medicine assistance for indigent patients who need help in buying their medication. (Photo: Taki Steve\/ Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4746653392_cd0676b04a_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4746653392_cd0676b04a_z-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4746653392_cd0676b04a_z-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The program, a project of President Rodrigo Duterte, has a PHP1 billion fund for medicine assistance for indigent patients who need help in buying their medication. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/13519089@N03\/\">Taki Steve\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MANILA\u2013A total of 2,137 individuals have already benefited from the \u201cLibreng Gamot Para sa Masa\u201d (Lingap) Program, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said in a news release issued on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The program, a project of President Rodrigo Duterte, has a PHP1 billion fund for medicine assistance for indigent patients who need help in buying their medication.<\/p>\n<p>It is implemented in six hospitals -\u2013 the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital for the National Capital Region (NCR); Jose B. Lingad Memorial Hospital in San Fernando City, Pampanga for Central Luzon; Western Visayas Medical Center in Iloilo City for Western Visayas; Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City for Central Visayas; Southern Philippines Medical Center in Davao City and Davao Regional Hospital in Tagum City, both in the Davao region.<\/p>\n<p>Taguiwalo reported that as of April 12, a total of PHP15.48 million has been used for the medicines of patients who have availed of the program, with PHP984,512,549.94 still available.<\/p>\n<p>Of the total number of patients who have availed of free medicines, 1,124 beneficiaries were from Central Luzon, 467 from NCR, 295 from the Davao region, and 159 from Central Visayas.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the social welfare chief encouraged indigent patients to take advantage of the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a President who cares for the overall welfare of the poor. We encourage patients who need help buying their medicines to take this opportunity,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Under the program, indigents who are either confined in or receiving outpatient treatment from identified hospitals and need prescription medicines are qualified to become beneficiaries of Lingap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; MANILA\u2013A total of 2,137 individuals have already benefited from the \u201cLibreng Gamot Para sa Masa\u201d (Lingap) Program, the Department &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":99072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,16,95],"tags":[13363,18133],"class_list":["post-99071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-department-of-social-welfare-and-development","tag-libreng-gamot-para-sa-masa","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99071","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=99071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}