STRESSING the need for government to give indigent and underprivileged cancer patients the support to fight the disease despite their lack of financial resources, Las Piñas Rep.
STRESSING the need for government to give indigent and underprivileged cancer patients the support to fight the disease despite their lack of financial resources, Las Piñas Rep. Camille Villar is urging her colleagues at the House of Representatives to approve her proposal to create a P10 billion cancer fund and free medicine assistance program for poor patients.
Official data shows that cancer is the third leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the country. The leading causes of cancer-related deaths in the country are lung, liver, breast, colon cancers and leukemia. Cancer, which afflicts 189 per 100,000 population, kills four Filipinos every hour or 103 every day.
To give poor cancer patients the hope of healing and recovery, Villar is proposing the establishment of a cancer treatment program to be administered by the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation through its accredited government hospitals in specific congressional districts to be known as health districts.
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