The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) mentioned Tuesday about P2 billion has been earmarked beneath the proposed P5.768-trillion National Expenditure Program (NEP) for most cancers therapy and prevention.
In a press release, Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman mentioned the greater than P2-billion allocation for Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases and the Cancer Assistance Fund underscores the Marcos administration’s resolve for the prevention, therapy, and management of non-communicable illnesses, resembling most cancers.
Broken down, P1.024 billion of the quantity was put aside for Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases for the procurement of 61 completely different most cancers commodities resembling Trastuzumab 600 mg/5mL, Docetaxel 40 mg/mL, and Paclitaxel 6 mg/mL and can profit 18,695 most cancers sufferers.
On the opposite hand, P1 billion was earmarked for the Cancer Assistance Fund (CAF), which is able to subsidize the continual medical support for six,666 most cancers sufferers registered throughout 31 most cancers entry websites nationwide.
The CAF will partially finance outpatient and inpatient most cancers management companies, in accordance with Pangandaman, noting that the companies embody, “but is not limited to therapeutic procedures and other cancer medicines needed for the treatment and management of cancer and its care-related components.”
The Budget chief mentioned CAF “aims to fill the financial gap in cancer diagnostics and laboratories, which PhilHealth does not cover.”
On common, Filipino households spend roughly P150,000 per affected person for these therapies.
Moreover, P682.709 million of the P1.7 billion allotted beneath the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases program will cater to 124,246 psychological well being sufferers.
Pangandaman mentioned the quantity will fund psychological well being medicines together with Sodium Valproate 250 mg, Paliperidone Palmitate 100 mg, and Haloperidol 5 mg/mL for sufferers on 362 psychological well being entry websites nationwide.—AOL, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
