(UPDATE) PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered the Department of Health (DOH) to ensure that services provided by the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) would remain unhampered even if it did not receive any government subsidy this year.
Marcos gave the directive during his meeting with DOH Secretary Teodoro Herbosa and other Cabinet officials in Malacañang on Tuesday.
“Make sure that services of PhilHealth remain unhampered … it (zero budget) should not affect the delivery of health care services,” he was quoted as saying.
The President backed the decision of Congress to not give the health state insurer government subsidy, insisting that “they have sufficient funds to carry on.”
Marcos and the DOH gave assurances that PhilHealth would remain stable and that the government would exhaust all efforts for Filipinos to receive maximum benefits from the insurer.
The President also reminded Herbosa to realign DOH’s focus from cure to prevention and to ramp-up efforts to provide ample and quality health and medical care to citizens.
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