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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Strengthening Peso In
Relation to United States (U.S.) Dollar</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">            </span>The
current market price for which one currency can be traded for another is called
an exchange rate<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>For example, if the U.S. Dollar exchange rate
for the Philippine Peso of 44.38 means that 1 U.S. Dollar can be exchanged for
44.38 Philippine Peso.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Though it is
challenging to understand the changes in foreign exchange market rates, it
stays as one of the most analysed and forecasted economic indicators as
exchange rates play an important role in determining the level of
competitiveness of a country. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">            </span>According
to TradingEconomics.com, the USD-PHP spot exchange rate has appreciated 0.6200
or 1.42 percent during the last 30 days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>During the period from 1998 to 2013, this exchange rate averaged 47.2700
pesos to a dollar reaching an all-time high of 56.3400 in October 2004 and a record
low of 37.8400 in May 1999.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>According to
the BangkoSentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the average monthly Peso per U.S. Dollar
rate for 2013 is at 42.2954<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">            </span>Earlier
in October this year, the Philippine Peso was expected to significantly
appreciate next year to 40-to-a-dollar and would be among the strongest in the
region as forecasted by the investment bank Goldman Sachs due to increase in
investments, continuous inflow of foreign exchange from Overseas Filipino
Workers, and the strengthening of business process outsourcing (BPO).<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Though the peso fell to its lowest since
September last December 20,<sup>,</sup>2013 at 44.50:$1 due to the US Federal
Reserve’s unexpected announcement of its intent to taper its monetary stimulus
through quantitative easing (QE) on January 2014, the BSP remains untroubled
and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>still expects the peso to gain its
strength back as remittances from overseas workers continue to increase<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The following table shows a positive outlook
by the Economist Intelligence Unit for the Philippine currency in the coming
years:</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;">                        </span>Table
2. USD-PhP Exchange Rate<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">  </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">            </span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">In 2012, the country’s key policy interest rate was at 3.5%.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a>
In 2013, the said BSP’s rate</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">
for the overnight borrowing or reverse repurchase (RRP) facility<span style="color: black;"> was kept at 3.5% by the Monetary Board</span> and 5.50 %
for the overnight lending or repurchases (RP) facility<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The decision to maintain these rates stems
from the BSP’s assessment that inflation stays non-threatening and
domestic economic activity continues to show solid growth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Moreover, lending to the productive sectors
of the economy has also been growing in strength, thus, contributing to the
minimization of price pressures. Comparatively three years ago, rates for the
RRP and RP facilities were at 6.00 and 4.00, respectively, which means that
current rates are lower. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">To further
support this positive outlook, Table 3 shows a forecast for the next few years
on this economic factor.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">            </span>Table
3. Interest Rate Forecast 2013-2015<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[7]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Lower
and stable interest rates may mean an opportunity for the government and
through it the hospitals, to improve its capability for the enhancement of its
facilities through expansion projects and opens the option of financing these
through long-term borrowings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Interest
rates affect hospitals financially as it determines the level of costs the
government incurs from its existing loans through interest expenses and
repayments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>With stable interest rates,
the government will, in part, be able to efficiently control its financial
health in terms of its current and future long-term borrowings for its capital
investments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Additional hospital capital
investments will consequently result to better delivery of health care services.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Low
and Stable Inflation</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">            </span>With the
strength of domestic economic activity and increasing capacity of domestic
productivity, the BSP remains unruffled as it deems inflation as manageable
over the next few years<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[8]</span></span></span></span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Forecasts support this stance as it shows
that inflation will stay within the target range over policy horizon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>In general, mean inflation is expected to
decrease but still within-target for 2013 to 2015.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>For 2013 and 2014, forecast showed the
decrease to 2.9% and 3.5%, respectively, and a stable 3.6% for the year
2015.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>With stable global commodity
prices, price pressures in the country are expected to be unthreatening as
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Good demand indicators and manageable
supply conditions are also anticipated to maintain the current robust domestic
economic activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The following fan
chart demonstrates that risks to BSP’s positive outlook on inflation, through
careful assessment of price trends and future inflation, appear to be positive
as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The fan chart illustrates the
probability of different inflation outcomes and risks based on a central
projection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The relatively larger bands
above this central projection, the BSP’s baseline forecast, confirms that its position
is indeed on the upside.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Inflation Rate Fan Chart 2013-2015</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Source: BangkoSentral ng Pilipinas, 3<sup>rd</sup>
Quarter 2013</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-no-proof: yes;"><img height="306" src="file:///C:\Users\Lloyd\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image004.jpg" width="364" /></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Relevance:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Inflation
affects the hospital in terms of its costs of operation such as wages, repair
and maintenance costs, supplies and equipment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>Irregular fluctuations or fast increases in prices can cause the
hospital’s inability to catch up in its adjustment of prices of services it
offers or in its request for additional budget and may also therefore mean
higher cost of operations and lesser profits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>Low and stable inflation rates in the next few years shall present the
hospital with more control in its costs of operations, prices of medical
services it offers, and generation of revenues as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Moreover, low and stable inflation also means
more peso for people to spend and thus, increases their capability to pay for
health services as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This,
therefore, presents an opportunity for the hospital.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Upward Trend of GDP Growth
Rate</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS PGothic"; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">The domestic
economy accelerated in the third quarter of 2013 by 7.5 percent from 7.3
percent recorded the previous year boosting the 2013 first nine months growth
to 7.4 percent from 6.7 percent in 2012<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[9]</span></span></span></span></a>. 
The third quarter growth is the fifth consecutive GDP growth of at least 7.0
percent under the Aquino Administration. This is the result of strong
performance in the real estate, renting, and business activities, trade and
financial intermediation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This growth is
backed up by the Industry sector’s robust growth as well.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS PGothic"; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">            </span>It even surpassed the World Banks’s expectation of 6.2%
for 2013 and the forecast made by the Economy Watch that shows an expected GDP
annual growth rate of 6.3-6.9 percent from 2012 to 2016 and will reach US$ 514
billion by the end of 2016<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[10]</span></span></span></span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS PGothic"; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">            </span>Philippine GDP, 1980-2015</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS PGothic"; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">            </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS PGothic"; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Source: Economy Watch.
http://www.economywatch.com/economic-statistics/country/Philippines/.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS PGothic"; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><img height="325" src="file:///C:\Users\Lloyd\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image006.jpg" width="546" /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS PGothic"; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">            </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">According
to World Bank, shall the country sustain a high GDP of at least 5%, around 2.2
million Filipinos can be provided with good jobs from 2013 to 2016<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[11]</span></span></span></span></a>.
The following table shows a positive viewpoint for the country’s annual GDP
growth rate in the next few years.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">            </span>Table
4. GDP Annual Growth Rate Forecast 2013-2015<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[12]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Year</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">GDP
  Annual Growth Rate</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2013</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">4.50</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2014</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">7.25</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2015</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">7.17</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Relevance:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">An important component of GDP is consumption and government
expenditure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The steady growth of
economy may mean an increase in private and government expenditure on
health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>With private consumption as a
basic driver of the country’s GDP growth, people could be spending more not
only for non-medical items such as food but also for medical services offered
in hospitals as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Government
spending for the provision of health services could also be increasing, and
thus, may increase the number of Filipinos with health coverage. This has a
positive effect on hospitals as continuous and increased spending on health
care services would result to the hospital’s improved financial position and
consequently improved quality of services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Migration of Experienced
Health Care Professionals</span></b></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">In
the global labor market, the Philippines has become a source of a great number
of professional workers especially for the first world countries; health
workers are not left behind by this migration trend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Nurses comprise the largest number of health
workers leaving the country followed by midwives and doctors. In 2010, the
Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) reported a total number of 12,082
nurses and 266 midwives deployed to other countries<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[13]</span></span></span></span></a>.
Next to India, the Philippines is already the largest source of doctors in
hospitals abroad. The country also supplies 25 percent of all overseas nurses
worldwide<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[14]</span></span></span></span></a>
and 83 per cent of foreign nurses in the United States<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn15;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[15]</span></span></span></span></a>.
This loss of skilled manpower in the local health sector is attributed to the
country’s deeper issues on employment opportunities and inadequate wages to
sustain a decent living. Our professionals continue to leave our country to
seek more opportunities for career development and higher living standards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">According
to a report of POEA, Nurse Professionals ranked second among the top ten
deployed land-based Overseas Filipino Workers by Occupational Categories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>From 2008 to 2012, the number of nurse
professionals deployed abroad shows an increasing trend. The year 2011 marked
the highest number at 17,236 deployed nurses.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Table
5. Number of Deployed Land-based Overseas Filipino Workers by Top Ten </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">                                   </span>Occupational
Categories, 2008-2012<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn16;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[16]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"></span></div>
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<div align="center" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 152.25pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><img height="326" src="file:///C:\Users\Lloyd\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image008.jpg" width="499" /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Relevance:</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Because
the migrating nurses are usually the ones with training, experience and skills,
patients in hospitals and other health institutions in the Philippines can
expect a higher incidence of cross-infections, adverse events after surgery,
accidents, injuries and even increased violence against the staff.</span><br />
</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Moreover,
with the best among nursing students often leaving as soon as they graduate,
the less skilled are taking the place of senior or relatively more experienced
nurses who have also left for other shores. In a year or two, they too would be
gone. The void would be filled once more by fresh graduates who would repeat
the same cycle: get a few years’ experience in a local hospital, apply for work
abroad and then leave. It is say many health professionals, a cycle that leaves
local hospitals in a state of perpetual displacement—and patients in constant
danger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>With staff usually composed of
trainees, quality of service may deteriorate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>This would also contribute to higher costs of operation as hospitals
continuously spend for the training of newly hired medical staff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This poses a threat to hospitals.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">High Poverty
Incidence Among Families</span></b><br />
</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">In
2012 full year official poverty statistics report made by the Philippine
Statistical System in early December 2013, statistics show that extreme poverty
remains at 1.6 million in the previous year<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn17;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[17]</span></span></span></span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This refers to the subsistence incidence or
the proportion of Filipino families under extreme poverty. This is estimated at
7.5 per cent in 2012 with no significant increase since 2009.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">            </span>Poverty incidence refers to the
percentage of poor families to the total number of families in an area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The latest NSCB report shows that the poverty
incidence in the country was at 19.7 per cent in 2012, a significant decrease
since 1991. This means that about one (1) out of every five (5) Filipino
families was poor in that year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Since
2006, with the continuing growing population of the country, no significant
changes in poverty incidence were observed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>Despite this fact, however, the number of poor families increased to 4.2
million in 2012 from 3.8 million in 2006. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Table 6. Annual Poverty
Incidence in the Philippines<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn18;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[18]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></b></div>
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  <td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Year</span></b></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Poverty
  Incidence Among Families (%)</span></b></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">1991</span></b></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">29.7</span></b></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2006</span></b></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">21.0</span></b></div>
</td>
 </tr>
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  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2009</span></b></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">20.5</span></b></div>
</td>
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  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2012</span></b></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">19.7</span></b></div>
</td>
 </tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: .5in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Table 7. Annual Magnitude of
Poor Families in the Philippines<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn19" name="_ftnref19" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn19;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[19]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: .5in;">
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<div align="center">
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<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;">
  <td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Year</span></b></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">No.
  of Poor Families</span></b></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">1991</span></b></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">3,554,878</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"></span></b></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2006</span></b></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">3,809,283
  </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"></span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2009</span></b></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">4,036,915
  </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"></span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2012</span></b></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">4,214,921</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"></span></b></div>
</td>
 </tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Relevance:</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">With the basic needs
as the priority of expenditure of families, persistence of poverty incidence in
the country could mean lesser spending of people for health or medical
services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The increasing number of poor
families also means an increasing number of patients for government hospitals whose
main thrust is to serve people who belong to poor families.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>More people will seek medical care from
government hospitals that offers medical services subsidized by the National
Government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span>This presents an
opportunity for the QMMC to be able to serve more people.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Increasing
Philhealth Coverage Through the Implementation of Case Rate System and No
Balance Billing Policy</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 49.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">                 </span>In September 2011, the Philippine
Health Insurance Corporation implemented the New Case Rate System that
standardized the cost of payment of medical services and surgical
procedures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The case rate system assigns
fixed rates that Philhealth reimburses for specific cases; thus, members will
be able to know just how much Philhealth will be subsidizing for the medical
services they have availed of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Moreover,
this new system provides faster reimbursement of fees to health care providers
such as government hospitals with significant reduction in the processing time
of claim documents from 60 days to as fast as 10 days or less.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The following table shows the rates for
medical cases and surgical procedures in the new system.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Table 8.Medical Case and Surgical Procedures
Case Rates<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn20" name="_ftnref20" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn20;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[20]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center">
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  <td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" width="255"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Medical
  Cases</span></b></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Case
  Rate in Pesos</span></b></div>
</td>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 12.7pt;">
<span lang="IT" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: IT;">Dengue I (Dengue fever, DHF grades I & II)</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">8,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Dengue II (DHF grades III & IV)</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">16,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Pneumonia I (moderate
  risk)</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">15,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Pneumonia II (high risk)</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">32,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Essential Hypertension</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">9,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Cerebral Infarction
  (CVA-I)</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">28,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Cerebral Hemorrhage
  (CVA-II)</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">38,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Acute Gastroenteritis
  (AGE)</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">6,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Asthma</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">9,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Typhoid Fever</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">14,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 11;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Newborn Care Package in
  Hospitals and Lying in Clinics</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">1,750</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="height: 22.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 12;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 22.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" width="255"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Surgical
  Procedures</span></b></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 22.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 13;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Radiotherapy</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">3,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 14;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Hemodialysis</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">4,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 15;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Maternity Care Package (MCP)</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">8,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 16;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">NSD Package in Level I
  Hospitals</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">8,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 17;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">NSD Package in Levels 2
  to 4 Hospitals</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">6,500</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 18;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Caesarean Section</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">19,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 19;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Appendectomy</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">24,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 20;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Cholecystectomy</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">31,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 21;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Dilatation and Curettage</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">11,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 22;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Thyroidectomy</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">31,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 23;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Herniorrhaphy</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">21,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 24;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Mastectomy</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">22,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 25;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Hysterectomy</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">30,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 26; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 191.3pt;" valign="top" width="255"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Cataract Surgery</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">16,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 49.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 49.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">                 </span>The “No Balance Billing (NBB)
Policy” is another benefit for sponsored members who are admitted in government
hospitals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Philhealth’s insurance
coverage includes expenditures as per the benefits schedule up to a limit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span>Shall a patient-member exceed the ceiling;
he or she shall cover for the additional costs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">    </span>Under the NBB policy, however, the
patient-member will not be charged with any fees or expenses beyond the stated
package rate thereby providing financial risk protection to Filipinos
especially those from poor families.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 49.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 49.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">                 </span>NSCB Statistics also show that
between 2000 and 2008, the number of Philhealth beneficiaries, comprising of
members and their dependents, have significantly increased from 29,597 in 2000
to 68,869 in 2008.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This increasing
number of beneficiaries is reflected in the upward trend of NHIP coverage rate
in the country from only 38.5% to 76.2% of the total Philippine Population in
2008.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 49.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: .5in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Table 9. Number of active
Philhealth Beneficiaries (Members & Dependents)<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn21" name="_ftnref21" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn21;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[21]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center">
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; margin-left: 87.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-insideh: .5pt solid windowtext; mso-border-insidev: .5pt solid windowtext; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 160;">
 <tbody>
<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;">
  <td style="border-bottom: solid #4BACC6 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: solid #4BACC6 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Year</span></b></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid #4BACC6 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: solid #4BACC6 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Total NHIP Beneficaries
  in Thousands</span></b></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2000</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">29,597</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2001</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">36,744</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2002</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">43,565</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2003</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">42,401</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2004</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">69,506</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2005</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">54,599</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2006</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">68,403</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2007</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">64,467</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2008</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">68,669</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2009</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">81,178</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 11;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2010</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">69,984</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 12;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2011</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">78,386</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 13; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2012</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">77,669*</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 49.5pt; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 49.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 49.5pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-no-proof: yes;"><img height="338" src="file:///C:\Users\Lloyd\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image010.gif" width="580" /></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 123.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 123.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Relevance:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">                 </span>The upward trend of Philhealth
coverage among Filipinos and Philhealth’s target of 100% will positively change
the behavior of people towards seeking for medical services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>As people get well-informed of the benefits
they could get from being a Philhealth member, more Filipinos especially the poor
will take advantage of its utilization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>This is further enhanced by the implementation of the case rate system
and the no balance billing policy that allows people to estimate the amount
that Philhealth shall cover for the medical expenses provided to them, thereby
protecting them from financial risks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>More people seeking medical services and availing Philhealth benefits
means more patients for government hospitals like the QMMC; thus, an
opportunity for the hospital as well.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Increasing Gov’t Budget Appropriation for the
Department of Health (DOH)</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Annually,
the DOH Budget is developed initially with the Department of Budget
Management’s (DBM) issuance of the budget call during the first quarter of the
year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The DBM sets budget ceilings based
on the availability of funds in the treasury and its estimated income for the
year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The DOH, then, together with all
other line agencies formulates their budget for the year based on the issued
ceilings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The line agencies’ proposals
will then be consolidated into a National Expenditure Program (NEP) and
converted into a General Appropriations Bill that will undergo a deliberation
by both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The budget appropriated
for DOH has significantly increased for the past five years from P18 billion in
2008 to P50 billion in 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This is
even expected to increase as the proposed budget for 2014 is at P80 billion
indicated in the 2014 NEP<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn22" name="_ftnref22" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn22;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[22]</span></span></span></span></a>.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Table 9. Department of Health Annual
Approriations<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn23" name="_ftnref23" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn23;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[23]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></b></div>
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  <td style="border-bottom: solid #4BACC6 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: solid #4BACC6 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Year</span></b></div>
</td>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Annual
  Appropriation in Peso</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2008</span></div>
</td>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">18,912,010,000</span></div>
</td>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2009</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">23,666,655,000</span></div>
</td>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2010</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">24,649,765,000</span></div>
</td>
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  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2011</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">31,828,616,000</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2012</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">42,155,963,000</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;">             </span>2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">50,442,299,000</span></div>
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  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 39.75pt center 50.85pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;">             </span>2014</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">80,171,300,000*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">                                         </span>Note:
*Proposed DOH budget for 2014 </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
increasing trend of government budget for DOH means more resources for
government hospitals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Greater resources
will mean more and better health services to be offered for the people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Greater subsidy received<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>from the government will allow for more
capital spending on equipment and other facilities, and therefore, better
quality of services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It is, thus,
necessary that the DOH is able to maximize the spending of available resources
provided for by the National Government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Technological</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Implementation of
Health Facilities Enhancement Program (HFEP) </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The Health Facilities Enhancement
Program (HFEP) is one of the banner programs of the Aquino Administration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Its main goal is to improve basic and
specialized health services providing trainings for health professionals and
upgrading health facilities, thereby providing better quality health care<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn24" name="_ftnref24" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn24;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[24]</span></span></span></span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Primary health care facilities will be
strengthened to become more responsive to the needs of the communities in their
respective areas and be able to provide Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn
Care (BEmONC) and Comprehensive Emergency and Newborn Care (CEmONC)
services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">            </span>In 2007,
the program started to receive a separate line budget item with P10 million
allotted for Capital Outlay (CO) with continual significant increases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The CO budget increased from P1.6 billion to
P3.2 billion in 2010 and even reached P7 billion in 2011<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn25" name="_ftnref25" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn25;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[25]</span></span></span></span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Moreover, its budget for DOH hospitals alone
was at P6.6 billion for the year 2013<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn26" name="_ftnref26" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn26;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[26]</span></span></span></span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Relevance:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">            </span>The
HFEP, with its thrust to upgrade health care facilities such as Barangay Health
Stations (BHSs) and Regional Health Units (RHUs) including government hospitals
nation-wide, will be able to enhance the country’s health facility network.
Expansion of services could be achieved in tertiary hospitals enabling them to
achieve higher quality level of service delivery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This program, therefore, presents an
opportunity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">            </span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Growing
Trend of IT in Health Industry </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">            </span>Globally,
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">the application of Information and Communications Technology in the
operations of health institutions has been the norm in the more developed
countries for more than 2 decades. Hospital operations are supported in terms
of health record systems management, inventory management, and accounting and
financial management and inter-operational communications.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Over the years, this trend has made available
useful technologies for the health industry such as electronic health record
software (EHR), personal health gadgets, telemedicine, clinical and billing
software, health information exchange, and cloud services<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn27" name="_ftnref27" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn27;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[27]</span></span></span></span></a>. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">IT innovations
will also improve population health management through which chronic conditions
in patients in a hospital may be determined and related readmissions may be
reduced thereby leading to cost savings and improved services for both patients
and health care providers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Social/Cultural</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Increasing Population</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">                  </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Latest data
from the National Statistics Office (NSO) show that the Philippine population
is 92.34 million based on the 2010 census results and is expected to continue
to grow in the coming years<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn28" name="_ftnref28" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn28;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[28]</span></span></span></span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The number shows that the population has
increased to almost 16 million from the 2000 result of 76.5 million at a growth
rate of 1.89% down from 2.34%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Using
this growth rate recorded in 2010, it is estimated that the country has a
population of around 98.73 million in 2013<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn29" name="_ftnref29" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn29;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[29]</span></span></span></span></a>.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-no-proof: yes;"><img height="338" src="file:///C:\Users\Lloyd\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image014.gif" width="580" /></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">                  </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: .75in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">                  </span>According to the projections
made by the NSO, the population will continue to increase and will reach around
141 million by the year 2014 at growth rate of 0.92%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This projection shows that 65 million people
would be added to the Philippine population from 2000 to 2040, on the account
that there will be a significant decrease in the average annual growth rate to
1% in 2030 to 2040 from 2.34% in 1990 to 2000.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">                  </span></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Table 10. Summary of Projected Philippine
Population, by Five Year Interval: 2000-2040<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn30" name="_ftnref30" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn30;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[30]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></b></div>
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  <td style="border-bottom: solid #4BACC6 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: solid #4BACC6 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Year</span></b></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid #4BACC6 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: solid #4BACC6 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Projected
  Philippine Population</span></b></div>
</td>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2000</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">76,946,500</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2005</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">85,261,000</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2010</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">94,013,200</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2015</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">102,965,300</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2020</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">111,784,600</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 39.75pt center 50.85pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;">             </span>2025</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: .7pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 160;">
   <tbody>
<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
    <td style="padding: 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt;"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">120,224,500</span></div>
</td>
    <td style="padding: 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt;"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
</td>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"></span></div>
</td>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 39.75pt center 50.85pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;">             </span>2030</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">128,110,000</span></div>
</td>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 39.75pt center 50.85pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2035</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">135,301,100</span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 39.75pt center 50.85pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2040</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: .7pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 160;">
   <tbody>
<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
    <td style="padding: 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt;"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">141,669,900
    </span></div>
</td>
    <td style="padding: 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt;"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
</td>
   </tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"></span></div>
</td>
 </tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 123.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 123.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Relevance:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 58.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">                    </span>The
increasing trend of Philippine population presents an opportunity for the
hospital industry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The increasing
population means more people will be needing medical or health services from
health care providers such as government hospitals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Since the main thrust of government hospitals
like the QMMC is to deliver medical services to the people, more Filipinos will
be served and therefore utilization of such institutions is maximized. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 123.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 123.0pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Health Seeking Behavior of Adolescents in the
Philippines</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: .75in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">                  </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Of the total
population of the Philippines, it is estimated that around 20% is comprised of
adolescents</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn31" name="_ftnref31" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn31;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[31]</span></b></span></span></span></b></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.
In 2010, young people aged 10 to 24 years old accounts for an estimated 30.5%
of the said total.</span></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Table 11. Number and Percentage of Young
People by Age and Sex, Philippines 2010</span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center">
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; margin-left: 87.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-insideh: .5pt solid windowtext; mso-border-insidev: .5pt solid windowtext; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 160;">
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<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;">
  <td style="border-bottom: solid #4BACC6 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: solid #4BACC6 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Year</span></b></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid #4BACC6 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: solid #4BACC6 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Total
  Number</span></b></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid #4BACC6 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: solid #4BACC6 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">%
  of Total Population</span></b></div>
</td>
 </tr>
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  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">10-14</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">10,168,219</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">11.0</span></div>
</td>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">15-19</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">9,676,359</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">10.5</span></div>
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  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">20-24</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">8,370,398</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="background: #D2EAF1; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">10.0</span></div>
</td>
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  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="150"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Total</span></div>
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  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">28,214,976</span></div>
</td>
  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 133.65pt;" valign="top" width="178"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">30.5</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">            </span>On the
account of the total Philippine population, the number of young people in 2010
showed an increase since 2000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Its size,
however, had slightly declined from 31.3% in the 2000 census<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn32" name="_ftnref32" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn32;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[32]</span></span></span></span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This proportion to the total population is
expected to further decrease by the year 2025 to 27% with a total of
approximately 32 million<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn33" name="_ftnref33" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn33;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[33]</span></span></span></span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">            </span>On the
health seeking behaviour of adolescents in the country, latest report of the
World Health Organization about the Philippines indicate that adolescents and
young people are likely to care less in seeking medical or health care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This is due to the fact that they have
already surpassed childhood diseases and are not yet affected by the health
problems that usually occur among the older population<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn34" name="_ftnref34" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn34;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[34]</span></span></span></span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>According to the 2008 National Demographic
and Health Survey in the Philippines, young people who seek primary care
visited RHUs and BHSs more than other types of health facilities due to illness
and injury and medical check up, the top two reasons of visits at 67.6% and
28.1%, respectively<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn35" name="_ftnref35" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn35;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[35]</span></span></span></span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The study also showed that those surveyed
mentioned at least one problem in accessing health care with lack of money as
the top reason at 56.8% among 15 to 19 year old women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This is further supported by a survey
conducted on health living of Filipinos by a large independent life insurance
group. Results of the survey show that among the Filipino adults who were
surveyed, only 53% have had a medical check up in the past 12 months. Moreover,
according to the same study, their decision to visit health care providers was
mainly influenced by the price of health care services that are perceived to be
expensive<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn36" name="_ftnref36" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn36;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[36]</span></span></span></span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">If this trend will continue to increase in the future,
diseases among this age group may not be detected and treated early and
therefore lead to increases in the incidence of such diseases in the latter
years. The following restrictions to the use of health services were also
identified: lack of financial resources to pay for medicines and medical fees,
lack of information on availment process of health benefits offered by the
government and perception of poor quality of health services in the country<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn37" name="_ftnref37" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn37;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[37]</span></span></span></span></a>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Environmental</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Persistence
of Climate Change causing Increased Incidence of Diseases</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;">                        </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">It is undeniable that the weather and
climate affect our health as changes in weather/climate factors such as
temperature, precipitation patterns and weather conditions could increase and
spread diseases especially the climate-sensitive ones<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn38" name="_ftnref38" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn38;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[38]</span></span></span></span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Higher temperature not only increases
mortality rates but also leads to higher levels of air and water pollutants
that are dangerous to human health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>In a
report made by an environmentally concerned organization, global temperature is
expected to increase to 4.9 degrees Celsius by the year 2100 if no action
(business as usual) is taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as shown in the
graph below<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn39" name="_ftnref39" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn39;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[39]</span></span></span></span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Moreover, climate change leads to the
occurrence of frequent extreme weather conditions such as stronger typhoons
that poses threats to people with flash floods, extremely high winds and
landslides among others.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-no-proof: yes;"><img height="332" src="file:///C:\Users\Lloyd\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image016.jpg" width="432" /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Factors of climate have an impact on
human health because these are critical determinants of various diseases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Climate change could affect transmitters of
diseases through food, water and even animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>Because bacteria grow more rapidly in higher air temperatures, this
could lead to higher incidence of food-borne diseases such as salmonella and
bacteria-related food poisoning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>With
frequent heavy rainfall or flooding, contamination of water bodies with
bacteria can causes disease such as gastroenteritis and infections.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
effects of climate change also increase the incidence of diseases such as
Dengue, Malaria and even Leptospirosis transmitted by mosquitoes that thrive in
stagnant waters and rats whose feces may contain pathogens.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftn40" name="_ftnref40" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn40;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[40]</span></span></span></span></a>
Increasing incidence of diseases also means an increase in the number of
patients in hospitals; thus, providing an opportunity for hospitals to serve
greater number of patients.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">A.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">     
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Positive and
Negative Aspects</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Positive
Aspects</span></div>
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">     
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Economic Growth –
This means more people can afford healthcare, more taxes paid and more revenues
for the government for its health programs, health infrastructure and staffing
pattern increase. This also spells additional funds for medical research and
development.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">     
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">National Health
Insurance Program (NHIP) – Philhealth is nearing its 100% coverage. That means
the No Balance Billing for the greater percentage of Filipinos<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">     
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Technology – The
widening use of Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Telehealth and new generation
equipment in hospitals and healthcare centers lead to efficient healthcare
delivery and healthcare operations. Telemedicine offers wider dissemination of
information and diagnosis and treatments for patients particularly in far-flung
areas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Negative
Aspects</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">     
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Climate Change –
Climate Change leads to the increase of diseases that are not endemic in other
areas before such as Dengue and other water-borne diseases.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">     
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Population Growth
– The increase in population strains the healthcare infrastructure of the
government in meeting the healthcare demand of the people. Also, population
pressure leads to a higher population density wherein poor areas are the most
vulnerable to diseases that are easily spread due to proximity. Also, these
areas are the most prone to climate change related diseases.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5544835517721897626&pli=1#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>Philippine
Peso.Trading Economics.<a href="http://www.tradingeconomics.com/philippines/currency">http://www.tradingeconomics.com/philippines/currency</a>.
Accessed on December 22, 2013.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />In today’s social media awareness, most people who have a gadget in hand are able to connect with the world in a few minutes of browsing. Even the medical doctors who are busy with their schedules can have the opportunity to use social media to their advantage.<br /><br />In a recent survey conducted by Kantar and in a seminar wherein Kantar was represented, a resource speaker asked how many watched TV regularly. Hands were raised. How many have a smartphone, a tablet or a laptop. Hands were raised. The third question was “How many would rather have use of their gadgets instead of watching TV?”. A majority raised their hands.<br /><br />It only proved a new phenomena. Many professionals are more reliant on their smartphones, tablets and laptops than TV in pursuit of their activities.<br /><br />The possibilities of using these new technologies with business or in the pursuit of a profession are almost limitless with regards to the conveyance of information and data.<br /><br />Hobbies of Asia and Artisi Design Services with Medix conducted a workshop titled “Digital Marketing for Doctors”. The aim was to enable healthcare professionals to utilize social media accounts in creating an online presence to better serve patients or to inform potential patients by providing health advisories.<br /><br />This will generate awareness so that patients and potential patients can be reached via Facebook since the demand for healthcare is increasing and all available technologies must be harnessed. Included in the workshop are steps in capacity building for doctors to reach as many patients and potential patients as possible.,<br /><br />An online community that is available everywhere 24/7 is the objective according to Artisi Design founder Jem Castro. A community that will provide quality healthcare wherein doctors, specialists and other professionals can be reached by patients using social media is the ultimate aim. A strong presence in cyberspace will connect patients with need forthe services of surgeons, dentists, paediatricians, cardiologists or even general practitioners will be an effective way of providing healthcare.<br /><br /> With the use of smartphones and other gadgets, speakers were able to demonstrate how social media platforms work and how they can benefit from such a system and network. This demonstrated how maximization of time and resources using technology can be harnessed by medical professionals.<br /><br />For more information about the Facebook and Digital Marketing workshop for Doctors event, click here – http://bit.ly/1YCj7w<br /><br /><br /></span></div>
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Healthcare Internet of Things Investment is Just Getting Started

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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />The healthcare industry is only starting out on its journey to develop and utilize the Internet of Things for population health management and patient monitoring.<br />Nothing is getting investors, providers, and developers more excited about the future than the healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) and its potential impact on big data analytics, predictive analytics, and personalized care. <br /><br />As financial reforms start to apply pressure on providers to engage their patients and manage populations much more intensely, healthcare organizations are actively searching for the technologies they need to capture their patients’ attentions and deliver actionable insights for their individualized care.<br /><br />According to a new crop of studies and reports, the explosive interest in truly connected health – and the devices, sensors, and clinical tools that support it – will rapidly drive new investment in a number of key market segments that will combine to create the healthcare-specific Internet of Things.<br /><br />From predictive analytics and ingestible sensors to home monitoring equipment and smartphone apps, the IoT is set to see billions of dollars in growth as it begins to reach maturity.<br /><br />Disposable IoT sensor market slated for 9.87 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR)<br />Healthcare organizations are seeking increasingly innovative ways to cut costs and penalties related to avoidable patient safety events, and disposable IoT sensors may create a new opportunity.  One-and-done sensors for endoscopes, cardiac catheters, insulin pumps, pulse oximeters, and continuous glucose monitoring devices reduce the possibility for infection and offer a lower cost way to utilize cutting edge technologies.<br /><br />In 2015, biosensors composed 60 percent of the disposable sensor market, but imaging sensors are likely to see significant growth as the technology becomes more sophisticated and demand continues to grow. <br /><br />While the market is likely to be centered in the Asia-Pacific region due to the availability of skilled labor and robust development climate, governmental policies in North America and other areas of the world, which demand high quality in exchange for reimbursement, are major drivers of this segment.<br /><br />Ingestible sensors will become a $678.2 million opportunity by 2022 In addition to disposable monitoring tools, ingestible sensors are capturing the interest of developers and investors.  “Smart pills” that contain cameras or biosensors will aid the difficult process of chronic disease management, says ReportLinker.<br /><br />Providers will be able to monitor metrics like a patient’s body temperature in real-time using these tools, and may alert clinicians when a patient is about to experience a significant adverse event.<br />At the moment, temperature sensors are likely to drive a significant portion of this segment’s growth, helping to expand the market from $198.2 million in 2015 to $678.2 million in 2022, representing a compound annual growth rate of 20.2 percent.<br /><br />Smart home healthcare will bring value to aging populations<br /><br />Remote patient monitoring is becoming a favored management strategy for healthcare organizations facing growing populations of aging patients who wish to avoid long-term care facilities or expensive home health aides. <br /><br />By combining existing smart home technologies – temperature sensors, security systems, lighting, and communication – with healthcare-specific telemonitoring tools, vendors and consumers will drive a 38 percent compound annual growth rate between 2016 and 2022 in this area of the Internet of Things marketplace, says P&S Market Research.<br /><br />The smart home will ideally be able to detect changes in a patient’s health status.  Providers may monitor how often a patient goes up and down the stairs to understand if they are feeling well enough to move around on their own, or tap into data streams from smart scales, blood pressure monitors, or other home-based devices to keep track of a patient’s health in real-time.<br /><br />Fall prevention and detection, nutrition monitoring, safety checks, and memory aids are also areas of this segment that are ripe for growth.<br /><br />Internet of Things “gateway” devices to reach $12.64 billion in sales<br /><br />The IoT relies on physical devices, disposable or otherwise, to connect users and produce data.  From smart televisions to wearables to tablet apps that control a blood glucose monitor, these interface devices are foundational for interacting with data and managing services.<br /><br />Worldwide, the market for IoT gateway devices is expected to grow at a 14.2 percent CAGR between 2016 and 2022, reaching $12.64 billion dollars by the beginning of the next decade.<br />Wearable devices, especially smart watches and activity trackers, are expected to drive much of this growth, says a report by MarketsandMarkets, and will hold the largest share of the market by the end of the study period.<br /><br />A separate report by Research and Markets adds that smartphones will be a critical tool for healthcare diagnostics, especially in the areas of cardiovascular health, hematology, respiratory diseases, obstetrics and gynecology, dermatology, and ophthalmology.  In 2015, apps and sensors that allowed smartphones to become diagnostic tools for cardiac conditions comprised 31.5 percent of the segment.<br /><br />In addition to helping bring healthcare services to developing areas of the globe, smartphone diagnostics will help providers cope with the growing number of lifestyle diseases prevalent in many wealthy nations.<br /><br />Global healthcare analytics market projected to hit $32.4 billion in six years<br /><br />The healthcare Internet of Things isn’t just about devices.  In order to make use of all the data streaming from sensors and other equipment, providers must develop big data analytics competencies – not to mention the interfaces and integration strategies to bring actionable insights to the point of care.<br /><br />Stratistics Market Research Consulting predicts that the global healthcare analytics market will grow from $5.5 billion in 2014 to a whopping $32.4 billion by 2022.<br /><br />While this figure includes everything from revenue cycle analytics to physician performance evaluations, the need to engage in advanced clinical analytics utilizing patient-generated health data will drive a significant part of this growth.<br /><br />As providers build their foundational analytics capabilities, they will be better prepared to handle the massive influx of Internet of Things data that is heading their way as other portions of the IoT ecosystem rapidly expand.<br /><br />Investment in internet-connected monitoring tools and the analytics that drive clinical decision-making are likely to continue to rise at record rates throughout the end of the decade, bringing patients and providers the health IT tools they need to engage in innovative, high-quality care.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 1991 
Local Government Code mandated that local government take greater 
autonomy in its governance. This involved the devolution of certain 
national government responsibilities to the local government level. 
Among these were income generation/sharing and healthcare. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unfortunately, the devolution of healthcare made for an inequitable 
distribution of services and resources wherein local governments with 
less resources had to contend with greater healthcare demands. Thus, 
according to statistics 3 out of 10 Filipinos die without the attendance
 of a doctor. This also goes for hospitals with inadequate staffing and 
equipment. This is the area that healthcare reforms are very much 
needed.<br /><br />With the 2016 Presidential Elections up ahead, this is the position of Mar Roxas on  Health Care as documented on Wikipedia:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Roxas' position on health care has been highlighted with his cheaper medicines bill that would reduce the prices of medicine by allowing local pharmaceutical companies to manufacture drugs whose patents had already expired, by expanding the parallel imports of commonly used drugs, and by aggressively promoting the production and consumption of generic drugs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But on October 9, 2007, he dropped his objection to the version of the House of Representatives which proposes setting up of market controls and conceded that the sponsors of a similar bill in the House correctly anticipated that big drug companies could manipulate and prevent drugstores from selling imported cheaper medicines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He said the use of price controls could come in if market competition from cheaper medicines from abroad and generic drugs do not work and make medicines affordable to the public.[8]</span><span style="font-size: large;">Drilled down to three key points, Mar Roxas' platform is:<br /><br />1.    100% Philhealth Membership<br />2.    Capacity building for public healthcare facilities<br />3.    Barangay Health Units that can provide immediate and quality healthcare.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The current administration has increased the budget of the Department
of Health (DOH) for the third straight year. The Philhealth enrolment aims for
universal coverage and will be near its goal of 100% in the near future. New
equipment have been bought for the tertiary hospitals operated by the
government and additional staffing has been hired. The bed capacities of the
tertiary hospitals have been increased and Rural Health Units have added
capabilities and capacities. Yet, the Philippine healthcare system has a lot of
ways to go. </span></div>
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