62
were given dental and medical assistance and treatment at the NCIP 5 regional
clinic, fifty-one (51), patients were referred to hospitals and other medical facilities
and sixty-five (65), were given financial assistance.
Region
6/7
implemented
the
financial/medical assistance which was of great
help to every IPs of Region VI and VII. The financial
assistance given to patients were spent for food,
transportation, payment of hospital bills and other
needs. This 2018, a total of 304 patients have
received medical assistance from the NCIP Region
VI and VII. Eighty-seven (87) of these patients have
received financial assistance while one hundred
eighty-three (183) were provided with medical
certificates and the remaining thirty-four (34) IP
patients were given financial assistance taken from
the MOOE since the amount allocated for medical
financial assistance was already depleted. The
increase of number of issuance of medical certificate
this year only shows that a lot of IPs really needed
assistance when it comes to health problems. Since
2015, the amount for financial assistance allotted
yearly is still the same but the number of IP patients
increased. Moreover, several health problems and
diseases like pneumonia, PTB, on and off fever,
cough, diarrhea, childbirth, hypertension, anemia,
UTI, chronic cholecystitis, severe malnutrition,
dogbite, injuries due to vehicular accidents and fall,
neonatal sepsis, meningitis, schizophrenia, acute
gastritis, diabetes, acute appendicitis, eye infection,
typhoid fever, peptic ulcer, transient uterine atony,
stroke, acute appendicitis, vehicular and motorcycle
accidents, gunshot wound, insect bite and puncture
wound have been recorded this 2018.
Midwife of Capiz Community Service
Center in giving medical financial
assistance to IP patients last October 5,
2018 at the Regional Office, Jaro, Iloilo
City.
Nurse
of
Negros
Occidental
Community Service Center, giving
financial assistance to an IP of Negros
Occidental last October 26, 2018 at So.
Sibato, Brgy. Guimbalaon, Negros
Occidental.
Still C. Española, Nurse of Capiz
CSC providing medical financial
assistance to an IP patient.
Nurse of Bohol Community
Service Center, provided financial
assistance to an Ati patient for 2-D
Echo procedure (Post Operation –
Heart Surgery) at Bohol CSC office.
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