By Rey Anthony Chiu, PIA
huge amount poor patients can use, from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) remain untapped.
The charity amount is one coursed through PCSO fund allocations in the form of endowments to hospitals with at least 25-bed capacity, says department assistant manager Rubin Magno.
Magno, who sits at the PCSO Fund Allocation Department revealed that not many of Bohol hospitals availed of the sum which could be useful in times of financial grip.
These endowment funds can be used for treatment, out-sourced diagnostic examinations if the beneficiary medical institution does not have the necessary equipment that the patient needs or procuring medicines when the hospital pharmacy runs out of the specific medicine an indigent patient needs, Magno explained.
The fund should help indigent hospital patients who would otherwise shy from their health care benefits due to fiscal concerns, he added.
Seeing this gap, PCSO wants to get to these people and thus put in the funds, he said during the recent 10th leg of the PCSO Summer Charity Caravan held in Tagbilaran last week.
In Bohol, only three hospitals here yet accessed the PCSO endowments, relatively few, noting the number of poor residents who would get a stab at free hospital benefits, care of the PCSO, records show.
Of the three, PCSO named Governor Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital (GCGMH) in Tagbilaran City, Congressman Teodoro B. Galagar District Hospital (TBGDH) in Jagna and Maribojoc Community Hospital (MCH).
He added that PCSO has put in P1M for GCGMH, P.5M for TBGDH and P.4M for MCH, amounts which can be replenished as soon as the hospital submits its liquidation reports, Magno explained.
He also pressed that the endowment amounts would be readily filled as soon as the hospital sends in the liquidation. This opens the possibility that a hospital could get millions if it hastens its fund replenishment processes, he stressed.
The funds, which can also be accessed by private hospital with complete facilities, can be had as soon as the hospitals with at least a social worker submits the application letters to PCSO coursed through Chairman Sergio Valencia.
The application letter would also need an enclosed project proposal for the funds soon to be accessed and a few days processing, he bared.
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