Rica Ligo (far left) expresses her gratitude to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr (right) for the “zero balance billing” programme, making her family pay zero for the hospital expenses of her father, Rico, who was confined at the Eastern Visayas Medical Center in Tacloban City, Leyte province. — PCO
MANILA: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr wants to address the issues and challenges hounding the implementation of his well-praised but also doubted “zero balance billing” system in all of the about 80 hospitals run by the Department of Health (DOH).
The President, along with Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa, visited the Eastern Visayas Medical Center (EVMC) in Tacloban City on Monday to check if Filipino patients in the government-run hospital are provided with services without paying any cent out of their pocket.
