The Lung Center of the Philippines, the NKTI and other state-owned specialty hospitals should be able to accommodate more indigent patients as Congress allocated nearly P7 billion for their operations this year, Sen. Angara said. | MRamosINQ /PDI
SPECIFIC TREATMENT Pedestrians walk in front of the National Kidney and Transplant Institute in Quezon City. The hospital caters mostly to patients with renal diseases and patients with diabetes who undergo regular dialysis. —INQUIRER FILE PHOTOstate-owned specialty hospitals
should be able to accommodate more indigent patients as Congress allocated nearly P7 billion for their operations this year, Sen. Juan Edgardo Angara said on Friday. “Patients from all over the country travel to Manila to seek medical help from these specialty hospitals because the treatment that they require are usually not available at the medical facilities where they reside or are too costly for them,” Angara said in a statement.P1.
P100B for PhilHealthAngara, chair of the Senate finance committee, said the allotments for these public hospitals were higher by P2 billion from the original budget proposal submitted by the Department of Budget and Management.In addition, he said Congress set aside more than P100 billion to the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. for the implementation of the Universal Health Care Law.
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