Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office general manager Alexander Balutan on Friday lauded the gaming public for their continued support to Lotto and other digit games that earned P2,440,028,390 billion for the month of June.
Balutan said in a press release that 30 percent of the revenues automatically went to the agency’s Charity Fund to pay for free hospitalization and medicines of indigent patients and other medical services such as chemotherapy and dialysis treatments, among others.
From January to May, data from the Charity Assistance Department led by assistant general manager Larry Cedro shows that more than P3 billion of revenues from Lotto, Digit Games, Sweepstakes, and Small Town Lottery were already spent for almost 154,000 patients.
He said that as revenues increased, the number of patients also increased because of the massive information and dissemination campaigns being implemented both in the traditional media and social media about PCSO’s charity programs.
“Out of all Lotto games, Ultra Lotto 6/58 had the highest earnings at P370.3 million, an increase of 67.20 percent compared with the same period last year. Followed by Mega Lotto 6/45 at P208.5 million, Super Lotto 6/49 at P177.1 million, Grand Lotto 6/55 at P176.5 million, and Lotto 6/42 at P175.6 million,” he added.