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healthcare accessibility

Latest Daily Tribune news and analysis on healthcare accessibility.

  1. BE the change you wish to see For Ayala Corp.’s chief social infrastructure officer and vice chairperson of Ayala Healthcare Holdings Inc., or AC Health Paolo Borromeo, coming home from a lucrative job in the United States, Ayala is on top of his choice, spurred by Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, the group’s chairman, commencement address during his graduation, in which Jaza urged graduates to be the change agent they wanted to see in the

    Caring, AC Health’s business — Borromeo

    Ayala executive Paolo Maximo Francisco Borromeo discusses how Ayala Healthcare Holdings is expanding affordable healthcare, cancer treatment, hospitals,…

    5 MIN READ

  5. FAIR healthcare financing supports medical professionals and protects patients’ access to quality care.

    When the hospital gets the check

    ‘A healthcare system cannot protect patients by quietly asking doctors to subsidize it, any more than it can sustain hospitals by ignoring their costs.’

    4 MIN READ

  6. MediCard, Medical City boost healthcare access

    MediCard, Medical City boost healthcare access

    MediCard Philippines and The Medical City (TMC) have reaffirmed their partnership to improve healthcare access and service delivery for members and patients…

    1 MIN READ

  7. FOR patients, the cost of healthcare is measured not only in pesos, but also in hours spent waiting and traveling.

    The time we take from patients

    Sometimes care is postponed not because the fee is unaffordable, but because the day it requires is. Care that is affordable in pesos but unaffordable in time…

    4 MIN READ

  9. IN PHOTOS | The Department of Education has partnered with the Department of Health, the Department of Interior and Local Government, and the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation to expand access to free primary healthcare by organizing public schools into access points for the YAKAP School Health and Protection Program. Under the partnership signed by Education Secretary Sonny Angara, public schools will facilitate health screenings, registration, and referrals for learners, teachers, non-teaching staff, and their qualified dependents nationwide.

    Yakap in school

    For us parents, expanding healthcare services into educational environments would establish a supportive atmosphere where our children are nurtured both…

    2 MIN READ

  10. JAPAN already has what the Philippines will soon have more of: old people. So it’s helping us figure out how to care for them before we get there.

    WE’RE NEXT, SAYS JAPAN

    Japan and the Philippines are expanding healthcare cooperation on elderly care, as the Philippines prepares for an aging population.

    1 MIN READ

  13. Senator Christopher ‘Bong’ Go.

    Go pushes law enforcement reforms

    Senator Bong Go called for stronger police visibility following the death of a 16-year-old girl in Davao Oriental and urged PhilHealth to use its…

    1 MIN READ

  15. Senator Christopher “Bong” Go

    Bong Go pushes grassroots care

    Senator Bong Go led the turnover of a Super Health Center in Magpet, Cotabato, expanding access to primary healthcare in remote communities and strengthening…

    1 MIN READ

  16. YOUNG volunteers from Taiwan and Malaysia watching a cataract surgery at the operating room of Tzu Chi Eye Center were the first faces that patients saw after their successful operation.

    Lessons from Tzu Chi

    Pharmacy student Wu Shan-De was struck by the spirit of Great Love woven through the Tzu Chi volunteers’ work.

    2 MIN READ

  17. A doctor’s work may happen in many rooms, but each one carries its own responsibilities.

    The other room where it happens

    As a hospital leader, I have seen how quickly a dependable person becomes a substitute for a dependable process.

    4 MIN READ