Senator Sherwin Gatchalian has filed a bill seeking to provide construction workers with mandatory insurance coverage in consideration of the hazards they face within their workplace. In filing Senate Bill No. 821 or the proposed Construction Workers Insurance Act, Gatchalian seeks to require...
A House leader has commended the executive department’s recent move to provide additional assistance to the country’s needy hemodialysis patients. Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo (PNA) Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo specifically hailed the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation...
Smart Communications, Inc. delivered the Best Mobile Coverage in the country for the first half of the year, according to the latest independent report by Ookla®, global leader in mobile and broadband network intelligence. Based on user-generated tests and scans in 2.3 million devices across...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, June 21 said she will refile the bill seeking free dialysis for senior citizens in the 19th Congress. Hontiveros has been pushing for the passage into law of the proposed “Free Dialysis for Senior Citizens Act”during her first term, the last three years of...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Is this the way media events have become? Clusters of people, their heads bowed to their gadgets, are somewhere else but not at the site. That’s the scene that I walked into when I finally went out of my “safe zone” and ventured into attending a media...
Senatorial candidate Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito on Thursday said the national government ought to defer the Philippine Health Insurance Corp.’s (PhilHealth) new contribution schedule amids the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Ejercito, who principally authored the and sponsored the Universal...
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) said on Monday, Dec. 27, that it is hoping that the Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines Inc. (PHAPi) president will rethink its scheduled "PhilHealth Holiday" from Jan. 1 to Jan. 5 next year. (PhilHealth / MANILA BULLETIN) "We...
The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) said it has stepped in to resolve the issue on the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) coverage of Philippine Mining Development Corporation (PMDC) employees. Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA), and Philippine Mining...
The country’s Vaccine Expert Panel (VEP) said Wednesday, Oct. 13, the national immunization coverage was “still relatively low.” (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) VEP chairperson Dr. Nina Gloriani said as of Oct. 10, the Philippines has so far administered close to 50 million doses of coronavirus...
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) announced its coverage on home isolation of COVID-19 confirmed mild and asymptomatic patients through its Circular No. 2021-0014 published on Aug. 19, 2021 and will take effect in 15 days from publication. According to the Department of...
The Philippine Health Insurance Corp., commonly known as PhilHealth, may need to revise its coverage as the state-run company struggles to pay off its debt, the government’s chief economic manager said. PhilHealth Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said that PhilHealth’s massive spending...
DITO Telecommunity has hit the two-millionth subscriber mark, the country’s newest telco today (Aug 4) announced. As of the first of August, two-million Filipinos have joined our fast growing telecommunity,” declared Chief Administrative Officer Atty. Adel Tamano. "DITO hit its one-millionth...
