The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has released a P500 million Cancer Assistance Fund (CAF) to the Department of Health (DOH) to aid Filipinos suffering from cancer.
It will also pay for outpatient and inpatient cancer control services, including diagnostics, therapeutic procedures, and other cancer medicines needed for the treatment and management of cancer and its care-related components.
In a press briefing on Tuesday, DOH officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire welcomed this development, saying that this is a big help for cancer patients in the country. “Pinaglaban namin itong P500 million na cancer assistance fund. Ito po ay naibigay na sa atin in the previous years. Pero itong 2023 na GAA, pagkita namin, natanggal siya do’n sa aming line item sa ating budget. Kaya lumapit po tayo sa legislators, sa Congress at saka sa Senate para matulungan tayo para maibalik nating itong perang ito,” she said.
“For many years, cancer has been one of the leading causes of death in the country. Sadly, Filipino families, even those in the upper-income brackets, are vulnerable to catastrophic health spending due to high treatment costs and limited coverage of cancer care under public programs,” she said in a statement.
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