The other day, my father, who is already a senior citizen, tried to purchase his medicines at a pharmacy. However, the ...

"There is a need to realign guidelines on implementing the 20% Senior Citizens' discount with statutory law, which does not require the use of a purchase booklet to avail the 20% discount on ...

MANILA, Philippines (Updated 3:42 p.m.) — Senior citizens no longer ... Since the purchase booklet was also used to monitor the quantity of a specific medicine purchased, ensuring a person ...

I know it is hard to always bring a purchase booklet with ... essential medicines. Senior citizens often forget these documents, or lose them.” “The 20-percent medicine discount, along with ...

The National Commission of Senior Citizens (NCSC) on Friday said if the purchase booklet will be removed as a requirement ... those patients who may buy too much medicine and overdose or they may turn ...

THE booklet that allows senior citizens a discount in buying medicine is no longer necessary. On Monday, Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa issued an order to do away with the purchase booklets.

announced that it is studying the expansion of the booklet-free rule for the 20% medicine discount to include persons with disabilities (PWDs), in addition to senior citizens. In a statement on ...