BY: MARLON A. LOTERTE
LEGAZPI CITY, March 24 (PIA) -- Close to a thousand residents of this city availed of and benefited from the medical and dental services provided for by the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation or Philhealth during the launch Monday, March 24, of the “Alaga Ka” program at the Embarcadero Activity Center here.
Philhealth Bicol regional office information officer Annel San Pablo said the multi-sectoral advocacy and services drive “Alaga Ka” or Alaga Ka para sa Maayos na Buhay, pursues government initiatives and intervention to provide the populace, especially the indigent members of the community, with greater access to primary health care services.
“Philhealth Bicol has partnered with the city government of Legazpi, Philippine Association of Family Physicians (PAFP), Association of Municipal Health Officers of the Philippines (AMHOP), both based in Albay province, among other stakeholders to provide medical consultations and check ups, tooth extractions and dental care as well as free medicines, including antibiotics, for cough and colds, and vitamins, among patients of all ages that trooped to the site as early as 7:00 am until late in the afternoon,” she noted.
San Pablo added that almost 400 city residents earlier enlisted themselves with Philhealth, yet the qualified beneficiaries came along with their children and other members of their families, even relatives, on the day that more than what we have expected were able to avail of the services provided for during the staging of the “Alaga Ka” program.
In the same program launch, Philhealth made sure that indigent members and those from the near poor segment of the population were properly instructed on how to avail of the basic health services at the accredited rural health units and health centers where they are assigned.
The beneficiaries belong to the sponsored members of the Philhealth, either by the city government here, provincial government of Albay, Department of Health (DOH) and other sponsors for their memberships.
“Alaga Ka” clearly manifests anew the government’s continuous caring for the indigent members of the community providing them their much needed primary health care through the various services of DOH, PhilHealth and local government by pursuing the project TSeKaP or Tamang Serbisyo para sa Kalusugan ng Pamilya.
San Pablo explained that TSeKaP offers consultations on primary health care from health centers and entitles them to a package of preventive and promotive services designed to keep them healthy and to detect as well any illnesses early on.
Services under TSeKap include regular blood pressure monitoring, screening services to detect breast and cervical cancers, counselling on breastfeeding, smoking cessation, assessment of body mass index and lifestyle modification, and digital rectal exam.
Upon the recommendation of the physician, health centers can also provide them with services on diagnostic tests such as complete blood count, urinalysis, fecalysis, sputum microscopy, fasting blood sugar, lipid profile, and chest X-ray.
Medicines for asthma (with nebulisation services), acute gastroenteritis with no or mild dehydration; minimal and low risk pneumonia, and urinary tract infection are also made available.
PhilHealth believes that through TSeKaP, poor families will be more empowered avail of health care and medical services and demand medical attention even without an illness. (MAL-PIA5/Albay)
LEGAZPI CITY, March 24 (PIA) -- Close to a thousand residents of this city availed of and benefited from the medical and dental services provided for by the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation or Philhealth during the launch Monday, March 24, of the “Alaga Ka” program at the Embarcadero Activity Center here.
Philhealth Bicol regional office information officer Annel San Pablo said the multi-sectoral advocacy and services drive “Alaga Ka” or Alaga Ka para sa Maayos na Buhay, pursues government initiatives and intervention to provide the populace, especially the indigent members of the community, with greater access to primary health care services.
“Philhealth Bicol has partnered with the city government of Legazpi, Philippine Association of Family Physicians (PAFP), Association of Municipal Health Officers of the Philippines (AMHOP), both based in Albay province, among other stakeholders to provide medical consultations and check ups, tooth extractions and dental care as well as free medicines, including antibiotics, for cough and colds, and vitamins, among patients of all ages that trooped to the site as early as 7:00 am until late in the afternoon,” she noted.
San Pablo added that almost 400 city residents earlier enlisted themselves with Philhealth, yet the qualified beneficiaries came along with their children and other members of their families, even relatives, on the day that more than what we have expected were able to avail of the services provided for during the staging of the “Alaga Ka” program.
In the same program launch, Philhealth made sure that indigent members and those from the near poor segment of the population were properly instructed on how to avail of the basic health services at the accredited rural health units and health centers where they are assigned.
The beneficiaries belong to the sponsored members of the Philhealth, either by the city government here, provincial government of Albay, Department of Health (DOH) and other sponsors for their memberships.
“Alaga Ka” clearly manifests anew the government’s continuous caring for the indigent members of the community providing them their much needed primary health care through the various services of DOH, PhilHealth and local government by pursuing the project TSeKaP or Tamang Serbisyo para sa Kalusugan ng Pamilya.
San Pablo explained that TSeKaP offers consultations on primary health care from health centers and entitles them to a package of preventive and promotive services designed to keep them healthy and to detect as well any illnesses early on.
Services under TSeKap include regular blood pressure monitoring, screening services to detect breast and cervical cancers, counselling on breastfeeding, smoking cessation, assessment of body mass index and lifestyle modification, and digital rectal exam.
Upon the recommendation of the physician, health centers can also provide them with services on diagnostic tests such as complete blood count, urinalysis, fecalysis, sputum microscopy, fasting blood sugar, lipid profile, and chest X-ray.
Medicines for asthma (with nebulisation services), acute gastroenteritis with no or mild dehydration; minimal and low risk pneumonia, and urinary tract infection are also made available.
PhilHealth believes that through TSeKaP, poor families will be more empowered avail of health care and medical services and demand medical attention even without an illness. (MAL-PIA5/Albay)
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