ADVOCACY ACCESS TO SOCIAL SERVICES namely:

1. PHILHEALTH
2. DOH
3. DSWD
4. PAGCOR
5. PCSO

What services are these institution offering and requirements for those who can avail the services that
they offer please expound or elaborate for each agency concern?

PHILHEALTH

- PhilHealth is the national health insurance program of the Philippines. A social security
institution provides health insurance coverage to all Filipinos. It makes sure that all Filipino
citizens have access to high quality, accessible, and affordable medical care.

Programs/Services:
 Formal Economy: Enrolled by their respective employers.
 Employees in the government and private sectors
 All other workers rendering services, whether in government or private offices
such as job order contractors, project-based contractor, and the like
 Owners of micro enterprises, Owners of small, medium and large enterprises
 Household helpers
 Family Drivers
 Informal Economy Workers: Not covered by formal contracts and whose premium
contributions are self-paid or subsidized
 Migrant workers (documented or undocumented Overseas Filipino Workers: Sea-
based and Land-based)
 Informal sector - street hawkers, market vendors, pedicab and tricycle drivers,
small construction workers, and home-based industries and services
 Self-Earning individuals (Professionals)
 Filipinos with dual citizenship
 Naturalized Filipino citizens
 Citizens of other countries and/or residing in the Philippines
 Indigent Members Persons: Those who have no visible means of income, or whose
income is insufficient for family substinence, as identified by the DSWD based on
specific criteria.
 Lifetime Members: Those who have reached the age of retirement, and have made 120
monthly contributions.
 Senior Citizen: All elderly who are not covered under the NHIP.

Benefits:

 Inpatient Benefits – Benefits for illnesses that need at least a 24-hour hospital
admission.
 Outpatient Benefits
 Day surgeries are elective (non-emergency) surgical procedures ranging from
minor to major operations, where patients are sent home safely the same day for
post-operative care.
 Radiotherapy
 Hemodialysis
 Outpatient Blood Transfusion
  Z Benefits – Benefits for conditions that are life threatening and necessitate prolonged
hospitalization, incredibly expensive therapies, or other treatments that exhaust the
financial resources of the family, unless their medical insurance covers them.
 SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Related Benefits - To ensure that the goals in line with
the UN's SDG are achieved, Philhealth has developed medical packages for members with the
following medical conditions or undergoing the following procedures:
 Outpatient malaria
 Outpatient HIV-AIDS
 Anti-TB through DOTS course
 Voluntary surgical contraception
 Animal bite treatment

Eligibility:

 Members should have paid at least a total of nine (9) months premium contributions
within the immediate twelve (12) - month period prior to the first day of confinement.
 Qualified dependents are also eligible for benefits. They must be declared by the
principal member, which means that their name is found on the member’s MDR.

Department of Health (DOH)

- The primary health organization in the Philippines is the Department of Health (DOH).
- Through the provision of high-quality medical care and the regulation of suppliers of health
goods and services, it is accountable for ensuring that all Filipinos have access to basic public
health services.

3 major roles in the health sector:

1. Leadership in health
2. Enabler and capacity builder
3. Administrator of specific services

Mandate: To provide national policy direction and develop national plans, technical standards and
guidelines on health.

Programs/Services:

1. Immunization Program
2. Expanded Program on Immunization
3. Family Planning Program
4. Filariasis Elimination Program
5. Food And Waterborne Diseases Prevention And Control Program
6. Food Fortification Program
7. HIV, AIDS And STI Prevention And Control Program
8. Women and Children Protection Program
9. Water Safety Program
10. Violence and Injury Prevention Program
11. Adolescent Health and Development Program
12. Aedes-Borne Viral Diseases Prevention and Control Program
13. Cancer Control Program
14. Blood Donation Program
15. Chronic Kidney Disease Prevention and Control
16. Dengue Prevention and Control Program
17. Dental Health Program
18. Emerging And Re-Emerging Infectious Disease Program
 19. Early Childhood Care Development Program
20. Environmental Health Program
21. Infant and Young Child Feeding Program
22. Integrated Helminth Control Program
23. Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Program
24. Mental Health Program
25. Malaria Control and Elimination Program
26. Micronutrient Supplementation Program
27. National Tuberculosis TB Control Program
28. Newborn Screening Program
29. Philippine Organ Donation and Transplant Program
30. Rabies Prevention and Control Program
31. Unang Yakap (Essential Newborn Care: Protocol For New Life)
32. Smoking Cessation Program

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)

- It is a department of the Philippine government charged to create and manage social welfare
programs, and policies but also initiatives aimed at other target stakeholders, such as children,
that are in need of empowerment, including women.
- Being the main agency for social welfare, it also has the duty to oversee the delivery of social
welfare programs and services at all levels.

Benefits: It is mandated by law with developing, administering, and implementing comprehensive

social welfare programs aimed at improving living conditions and empowering disadvantaged
children, youth, women, seniors, people with disabilities, families in crisis or at risk, and communities
in need.

Programs/Services:

1. Adoption and Foster Care - It is permanently placing a minor with a parent/s other than the
birth parents.
2. Bottom-Up Budgeting (BUB) - It is designed to secure the implementation of key poverty
reduction initiatives.
3. Center & Residential Care Facilities - These are round-the-clock services that offer an
alternative form of family care for underprivileged, vulnerable, or disadvantaged people or
families.
4. Disaster Response Operations - A life-saving emergency response as well as a long-term
strategy.
5. Gender and Development – It recognizes that gender issues affect all aspects of
development, and must be considered as part of policy-making to ensure effective social and
economic development.
6. International Social Welfare Services for Filipino (ISWSFN) - This program encourages
migrant Filipinos and other Filipino nationals living abroad who require special protection to
seek assistance from Philippine embassies in their destinations.
7. Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan – Comprehensive Integrated Delivery of Social
Services: Kapangyarihan at Kaunlaran sa Barangay (KALAHI-CIDSS: KKB) - Its
purpose is to bring asset reforms, human development services, capacity building and
governance engagement.
8. Listahanan - A data management system identifies who the poor are and where they are in
the country.
9. Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) - It aims to promote responsive
governance while also enhancing the accessibility of basic social services to underprivileged
communities.
 10. Protective Services Program - It provide a range of interventions to people, families, and
communities going through difficult times as well as vulnerable or disaster-affected
communities.
11. Recovery and Reintegration Program for Trafficked Persons (RRPTP) – It is a
comprehensive set of programs and services designed to address the psychosocial and
financial needs of the beneficiaries.
12. Supplemental Feeding Program - It is a government-sponsored initiative that provides food
in addition to regular meals to children as part of the DSWD’s ECCD program.
13. Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) - It is a community-based capacity-building
program with the goal of enhancing program participants' socioeconomic circumstances.
14. The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) - It is a human development initiative
that invests in poor families' education and health, mainly those with children ages 0 to 18.

Eligibility:

 Families/individuals who are indigent, vulnerable, disadvantaged, or poor in the informal sector,
as determined by the DSWD Listahanan, government employees and contract service workers,
and those in crisis as determined by social workers.

Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR)

- It provides immediate assistance to victims of tragedy and natural disasters.

- The organization runs relief operations and provides food and non-food relief packs to disaster
victims in affected regions across the country. The non-food packs included blankets, mosquito
nets, slippers, and hygiene kits, while the food packs included rice, canned goods, and other
grocery items.

Programs/Services:

1. Multi-purpose Evacuation Centers

2. Covid-19 Assistance
3. Support for Filipino Athletes
4. Medical Assistance - PAGCOR supports the promotion of key health-related programs of the
government by providing financial assistance to state-run hospitals.
5. Pamaskong Handog ng PAGCOR – It is an annual Christmas gift-giving program for poor
and vulnerable adults and children from across the Philippines.
6. PAGCOR Village – It is a charitable project in the PAGCOR Village, to safeguard the living
condition of locals affected by the eruption of Taal Volcano in January 2020.
7. Handog Computer Program - PAGCOR purchased 5,000 personal computer units for
distribution to underprivileged pupils in public schools nationwide.
8. School Kits for Kids – It aims to help underprivileged public elementary school students by
giving them school supplies.
9. School Building Project – This project helps address the perennial problem of classrooms
shortage in the country.
10. Brigada Eskwela
11. Feeding Program - It helps provide the nutritional needs of underweight children enrolled in
community-based daycare centers and public elementary schools in cities hosting Casino
Filipino branches.
12. Kasibulan Grassroot Football – This project to help promote the sport of football among
children aged 6 to 12 years old.
13. Pinoy Bayanihan - The project aims to help eradicate the backlog of school chairs and
furniture in public schools nationwide by manufacturing thousands of armchairs from illegal
logs confiscated by the DENR.
14. Kapit-Bisig para sa Ilog Pasig
 15. Old slot machine stands converted into school desks

Philippine Charity Sweepstake Office (PCSO)

- It is the main government organization responsible for generating and allocating funds for
national charities, medical assistance and services, and health programs.
- It includes regular donations to nonprofit organizations that provide welfare services to people
who are physically or mentally disabled, elderly, or who have been abandoned or exploited.
- In order to provide steady and ongoing sources of funding for its programs, it holds and
administers charitable lotteries, races, and sweepstakes, as well as takes part in investments,
projects, and activities pertaining to health and welfare.
- It also engages in other activities to strengthen the agency's capacity for managing funds as well
as to improve and scale up such operations that generate funds.

Services:

 Endowment fund/quality health care

 Individual medical assistance
 Community outreach
 Ambulance donation
 National calamity and disaster
 Hospital renovation and improvement of health care facilities

PCSO Medical Assistance Program

1. Confinement
2. Dialysis
3. Cancer Treatment: Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy
4. Medicines
5. Surgical supplies
6. Implant (Bone/Cochlear)
7. Laboratory/Diagnostic Procedures
8. Medical/Assistive Devices
9. Non and Minimally Invasive Procedures
10. Transplant Procedures
11. Cardio Procedures
12. Rehabilitative Therapy

Eligibility:

 All Filipino patients who request for assistance, either personally or through a representative, on a
health-related concern, include the following:
o Confined in any health facility
o Receiving health care management as outpatients
o Seeking management in foreign countries, provided that no health facility within the
Philippines is capable of providing such procedure