22 February 2006
11,000 families get PhilHealth cards in Pangasinan
MANGALDAN – Some 11,000 families belonging to the poorest of the poor in Pangasinan received their Philippine Health Insurance cards recently from Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr.
De Venecia paid half of the premiums of these families from his pork barrel allocation with the other half shouldered by PhilHealth.
“In these days when the cost of hospitalization can no longer be afforded by ordinary income-earners, most specially the poor, it pays to be PhilHealth members,” de Venecia said.
Some 2,000 families received their cards in Mangaldan, another 2,000 in San Jacinto, 2,000 in Manaoag, 2,000 in San Fabian and 3,000 in Dagupan City, all in de Venecia’s own fourth district of Pangasinan.
PhilHealth Regional Vice President Ernesto Beltran helped de Venecia distribute the cards to the recipient families.
Beltran said a PhilHealth card holder who is the family head enjoys free hospitalization, along with his wife and children as well as the holder’s parents.
Beneficiaries of PhilHealth cards were identified by their respective barangay captains.
The provision for health insurance among poor families was among the strategies adopted by the government to alleviate poverty in the countryside. (PNA)
De Venecia paid half of the premiums of these families from his pork barrel allocation with the other half shouldered by PhilHealth.
“In these days when the cost of hospitalization can no longer be afforded by ordinary income-earners, most specially the poor, it pays to be PhilHealth members,” de Venecia said.
Some 2,000 families received their cards in Mangaldan, another 2,000 in San Jacinto, 2,000 in Manaoag, 2,000 in San Fabian and 3,000 in Dagupan City, all in de Venecia’s own fourth district of Pangasinan.
PhilHealth Regional Vice President Ernesto Beltran helped de Venecia distribute the cards to the recipient families.
Beltran said a PhilHealth card holder who is the family head enjoys free hospitalization, along with his wife and children as well as the holder’s parents.
Beneficiaries of PhilHealth cards were identified by their respective barangay captains.
The provision for health insurance among poor families was among the strategies adopted by the government to alleviate poverty in the countryside. (PNA)
