Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) provides financial assistance to women with cancer that offers financial risk protection from cancer treatment.<\/p>\n
PhilHealth’s Z Benefit package includes treatment of gynecologic illnesses, early stage breast cancer (stage 0 to III-A), surgery, chemotherapy, and others amounting to P100,000 (USD1,919) as minimum.<\/p>\n
Women with cervical cancer can get a PhilHealth benefit package based on their treatment options. For example, a total of P125,000 (USD2,399) is available for those who need primary surgery or pelvic cobalt radiation with low dose brachytherapy, while P175,000 (USD3,358) is available for pelvic radiation with a linear accelerator and high dosage brachytherapy.<\/p>\n
For more information, read the full news article originally published in <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>INQUIRER.net<\/a>.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Have anything to say about <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Philippines\u2019s health financing and social health protection? Please leave your comments below.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Picture by Anna Shvets<\/a> from Pexels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) provides financial assistance to women with cancer that offers financial risk protection from cancer treatment. PhilHealth’s Z Benefit package includes treatment of gynecologic illnesses, early stage breast cancer (stage 0 to III-A), surgery, chemotherapy, and others amounting to P100,000 (USD1,919) as minimum. Women with cervical cancer can get a PhilHealth benefit package based on their treatment…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":987527510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987522165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987527510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987522165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987522165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987522165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}