The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) is targeting to release within a month the indemnification package for people who experienced serious adverse events following immunization.
PhilHealth Vice President for Corporate Affairs Dr. Shirley Domingo said that the guidelines of indemnification fund for vaccine recipients who suffered serious side effects have been approved.
“Yung inaayos lang po natin ay yung funding po nito kasi under the law we were supposedly provided with P500 million in trust specifically for this purpose (What we are just fixing is its funding because under the law we were supposedly provided with P500 million in trust specifically for this purpose),” Domingo said in a public briefing.
“So inaayos po natin yun para kung mag release na tayo may funding na rin yun. So any time yun siguro within a month mare-release na natin (So we are arranging that so that when we release there will be funding as well. So any time maybe within a month we will release it),” she added.
Republic Act No. 11525 or the “COVID-19 Vaccination Program Act of 2021”, which was signed by President Duterte in February, allocated P500 million for the COVID-19 National Vaccine Immunity Fund.
Covered by the benefit are inoculated individuals who had serious adverse events following vaccination that required hospitalization, and in case of permanent disability or death.