Healthcare in the Philippines are varying from private, public, to barangay health centers(many rural municipalities). Most of the national burden of health care is taken up by private health providers.
Philippine healthcare has seen increased activity and opportunities in the last few years. While healthcare demand is still driven by traditional factors such as aging populations and consequences of modern urban lifestyles that lead to increased incidences of disease, there are other factors that are stimulating exciting growth and innovations.
The PH Government is now on the move to maximize the benefits of the people by covering the hospital bills of poor Filipinos by 2017 in public health institutions. This is based on the announcement made by Health Secretary Pauline Jean Ubial in her speech during the year-end conference of the Integrated Provincial Health Office ( IPHO) employees in Shariff Aguak on December 17, 2016.
Ubial said that this health reform will be viably implemented due to the increased budget of the DOH for the coming years. To make it even more convenient and efficient for all Filipinos stricken with poverty, the patients do not need to present their Philhealth IDs anymore when they intend to avail of the assistance.
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