ILOILO CITY, Aug 9 - - More indigent patients from Western Visayas benefited from President Rodrigo Duterte's "Libreng Gamot sa Masa (LinGap sa Masa)" program.
Data from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-6 showed that as of July 31, money disbursed came to a total of PHP27.1 million out of its PHP138 million fund for free medicines.
DSWD-6 information officer May Castillo, in an interview on Wednesday, said the PHP27.1 million helped aid the purchase of medicines of 4, 436 patients from the different parts of the region.
She said that 3, 539 of these patients fall under the family head and other needy adult (FHONA) client category of the program. DSWD-6 has spent PHP19.4 million for their medicines.
Also, 788 senior citizens have availed of the free medicines with a total cost of PHP5.8 million; 22 women in especially difficult circumstances (WEDC) with total cost of medicines of PHP123,788 and 87 persons with disabilities with total cost of medicines of PHP1.7 million.
Castillo said that they have not received requests from indigents who fall within the children in need of special protection (CNSP) and youth in need of special protection (YNSP) categories.
With the PHP27.1 million expenditure as of July 31, the department has still around PHP110.9 million fund to be spent for the free medicines of patients until end of the year.
To expand the utilization of the funds,DSWD-6 recently sought the expansion of the program coverage to three more hospitals: Dr. Rafael S. Tumbokon Memorial Hospital in Kalibo, Aklan; Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital in Roxas City, Capiz; and Angel Salazar Memorial General Hospital in San Jose de Buenavista, Antique.
Castillo said that they are still working on a partnership with these provincial hospitals.
DSWD-6 started to implement the President's LinGap sa Masa program March this year in partnership with the Western Visayas Medical Center (WVMC) in Mandurrriao, Iloilo City.
Qualified as beneficiaries are families or individuals who are indigent, vulnerable or disadvantaged; those who are in crisis situations based on the assessment of social workers; those in the formal sector and poor based on the Listahanan of DSWD; government employees and contract of service workers and soldiers and police who were wounded in the line of duty.
Patients have to submit a doctor’s prescription, certificate of indigency and valid identification card.
Eligible patients will be issued a DSWD LinGap sa Masa Guarantee Letter (GL) indicating the needed amount of medicines. It will be presented to the pharmacy of the hospital to get fre medicines. (PNA)
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