Philhealth requirements

There is currently a national initiative to help those HIV Positives to cope up with the medical expenses through Philhealth. Thank you. It is really useful for us but I believe there are more improvements that could be made especially when trying to avail your benefits.

The current procedure is that we need to submit MDR (Member Data Record) and CF1 form with the signature of your employer. Worst is, you have to do this everytime you need a refill. That means every quarter or 4 times a year. What kind of excuses we need to always tell our employers? These requirements are usually requested whenever a person will be admitted in the hospital. If our employers suspected that we are in quarterly basis, request for these documentations, would it raise their eyebrows and ask if we are still fit to work? If none in our annual medical exam shows finding, would it be more questionnable in their part why they need to provide us these documents on a quarterly basis. I asked what is the purpose of this documentation, they only wanted to make sure thatcontributions are made. Why cant we submit our payslip instead? Or any other proof that we make our contributions on a regular basis.

Come on Philhealth peeps, we appreciate your efforts for us, but please do not make a quicksand and let us pozzies be sucked into it. Please do not make it harder for us. We hope that you understand our situation. Sometimes it is not living with this disease that is harder, but keeping it as a secret. We really hope you can review your policies because it is getting harder for us. I hope this will not be one of the reason why some of us will stop taking medications or will hinder some people to get tested because of the hassles.

It is not new to us that in our society, there is still stigma on this disease and most (if not all) pozzies do not want to reveal their identity in their workplace. Besides, we cannot afford to leave our work. We became a burden to our family with the news, and we do not want to make it even harder for them by being a bum. Even though we have this little monsters, we still have dreams for our family.

Please support us.

Yours,

Potchini2