Despite being a top exporter of health care professionals, the Philippines faces a chronic shortage of nurses and physicians.

MANY GRADUATES of healthcare programs are inadequately prepared to operate in a public-health environment, particularly in ...

This, basically, underpins the dogma for the Philippines’ version ... role of private health delivery services over public facilities under the proposed UHC law has been muted, but the ...

The long-awaited move to universal health care (UHC) is now within sight ... is the national health insurance provider in the Philippines, providing all Filipinos with access to health services.

MANILA, Philippines ... or the UHC Act, the province-wide or citywide health system shall pool and manage, through a special health fund, all resources intended for health services to finance ...

The Philippines’ universal health care (UHC) system is now operative, after President Rodrigo Duterte signed the bill into law in February 2019 and Francisco Duque III, the secretary of health, signed ...

In celebration of the UHC Act, DOH-CHDNM highlighted the agency’s steadfast commitment to delivering equitable, quality healthcare services to every Filipino and the invaluable contributions of its ...

MANILA, Philippines — Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) is eyeing to fully implement the Universal Health Care (UHC) Law by mid-2021, its chief Ricardo Morales said Friday.