08 September 2021
Dear Mr. Oland Ian Bungay,
Greetings!
Thank you for your request dated September 7, 2021 at 06:53 P.M. under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.
Your request
You asked assistance for medical and financial aid for your mother’s hospital bills who is battling for Covid-19 with pneumonia.
Response to your request
While our aim is to provide assistance or information whenever possible, in this instance this Office does not have the assistance that you have requested because the Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC) is not a direct implementing agency. The CWC is the focal inter-agency body of the Philippine Government for Children. It is mandated to coordinate the implementation and enforcement of all laws; formulate, monitor, and evaluate policies,
programs and measures for children.
The CWC is an oversight coordinating agency in protecting the rights and welfare of children. Hence, it is not within the agency’s mandated function to provide basic services. However, you may wish to contact the following Departments for financial and medical assistance:
1. Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) for social welfare
assistance. Please send your request directly to the Department of Social
Welfare and Development (DSWD) addressed to Honorable Rolando Joselito
Delizo Bautista, Secretary of the DSWD at
[email protected] or Ms. Myrna
Reyes, FOI Receiving Officer and Head of Records and Archives Management
Division at
[email protected].
2. Department of Health (DOH) for necessary health/medical support services.
Please send your request directly to the Department of Health (DOH) addressed to Honorable Dr. Francisco T. Duque III, Secretary of the DOH
[email protected] or Atty. Romela DeVera, Director IV Legal Service/Ms. April
Rhea M. Molina, FOI Receiving Officer at
[email protected]
It is worthy to mention that the Malasakit Center Act, which establishes the
Malasakit Program and institutionalizes Malasakit Centers in DOH and other
government hospitals in the country with Hon. Senator Bong Go as the founder
will be of help for patients needing medical assistance.
The Malasakit Center is a One-Stop Shop where indigent patients can efficiently
access financial medical assistance from agencies such as PhilHealth, Philippine
Charity Sweepstakes Office, and the Department of Social Welfare and
Development.
Currently, a total of 74 Malasakit Centers were established nationwide with 45
centers in DOH hospitals, 28 centers in LGU-operated hospitals, and one center
in the Philippine General Hospital.
Your right to request a review
If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an
internal review of the response, by writing to the Executive Director of CWC, Mary Mitzi Cajayon-Uy with e-mail address
[email protected]. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result, within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request.
If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011).
Thank you.
Respectfully,
JOSEF ANDREW MENDOZA
Deputy Executive Director
FOI Decision Maker
