BAGUIO CITY – The City
Council approved on first reading a proposed ordinance providing for free
medical services and medicines for indigent residents in the city.
The ordinance,
authored by Councilor Leandro B. Yangot, Jr., said the program shall only be
available to paupers of the city and that the patient availing of the said
privilege should be a bonafide resident of the city.
Under the proposed
ordinance, a pauper refers to any person or family who has no means at all of
even supporting himself or themselves or those who have no means of livelihood
or any person or family who is so poor that he or they must be supported at
public expense and any person or family who has no property or income
sufficient for their support aside from their labor.
Yangot said any
person can avail of the services of the program upon the approval of the City
Mayor or his duly authorized representative via certification and
recommendation from the Office of the City Social Welfare and Development which
shall determine the financial status and condition of the prospective
beneficiary and his or her family.
The City Social
Welfare and Development Office and City Health Services Office, in coordination
with medical service providers, shall be responsible for providing treatment or
medication to indigent patients and the city government, through the City
Mayor, may enter into a contract with medical service providers operating in
the city to perform the said services.
The local
government shall provide P5,000 and the book of registry and medical
certificate shall be kept and encoded, among others, the name of the patient,
personal data, clinical abstract, certificate of no land holding from the City
Assessor’s Office, recommendation and certification of the City Social Welfare
and Development Office that the prospective beneficiary and his or her family
is indigent as defined in the measure, and the approval of the City Mayor
through his duly authorized representative. -- Dexter A. See
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