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Friday, March 29, 2024

SAP Go to expand ‘Malasakit Centers’

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Special Assistant to the President Christopher Lawrence ‘Bong’ Go wants to strengthen and expand the Malasakit Center program in order to make quality medical care available to more Filipinos.

The Malasakit Center is the one-stop shop program of President Rodrigo Duterte to hasten the delivery of medical services and give poor patients access to free medicines.

In his State of the Nation Address last July, the President said Go was “instrumental in arriving at the right decision through proper consultation” when he decided to put up Malasakit Centers.

Under the program, patients are assisted in availing themselves of the services and financial assistance provided by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp., and the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

Pooled together, the assistance can reduce the patients’ medical bill—including medicines—to a more affordable amount or at times, to zero.

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