Joseph Ejercito Estrada

30 June 1998 – 20 January 2001

HEALTH PROGRAMS+
Erap Dialysis Center for
the Poor Program at the
Malacañang Clinic
• Launched on July 1999 at the
Malacañang palace.
• Provides free dialysis exclusively to
indigent patients with kidney
ailments.
• So far helped 500 people
• According to the Presidential
Management Staff, the selection
process and processing of
beneficiaries under the program is
being done in coordination with the
Department of Social Welfare and
Development.
EstablishmEnt of animal bitE CEntErs
in 77 ProvinCEs and 65 CitiEs
• A health facility manned by trained doctor/s
and nurse/s where individuals with rabies
exposure are evaluated and managed and the
administration of PrEP to high risk individuals.

ExECutivE ordEr no. 84 dEClaring

marCh as rabiEs awarEnEss month
• Holding of rabies awareness month during
the month of March must be observed in
each municipality.
 garantisadong Pambata
Erap Estrada
• Biannual week long delivery of a package of health services to children
between the ages of 0-59 months old with the purpose of reducing
morbidity and mortality.
• The GP program was launched in 1999 in response to the United Nations
International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) call for the reduction of the
mortality rate among children aged 5 years and below.

Provision of vaCCinEs for immunization of 98% of a 9-

month old babiEs to 15-YEar old ChildrEn
• Proclamation No. 4, s. 1998 (DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM SEPTEMBER 16 TO OCTOBER 14, 1998
AS THE “LIGTAS TIGDAS MONTH” AND LAUNCHING THE PHILIPPINE MEASLES ELIMINATION
CAMPAIGN
• Goal: Zero measles by the Year 2008
• Free measles vaccines shall be given to all children currently residing in the Philippines between ages
of nine (9) months to less than fifteen (15) years.
hEalth sECtor rEform agEnda
• The health department’s most
significant feat in 1999 was the
fo r m u l at i o n o f t h e H e a l t h
Sector Reform Agenda (HSRA).
It contains the package of far-
reaching reforms necessary for
extending “Health for All
F i l i p i n o s .” T h e H S R A w a s
presented to donor agencies in
the partners for health
meetings at Museo Pambata on
December 3, 1999.
 30 June 1998 – 20 January 2001

lingaP Para sa mahiraP

"All Implementing Agencies shall
target the 100 poorest families
per province and city. With the
h e l p o f t h e D O H i n h o p e s to
poverty reduction through food,
nutrition and medical assistances.
S u c h a s i n s u ra n c e s , m e d i c a l
supplies for RHU and barangay
health stations. And running
development programs and funds
for sustansya para sa masa
community projects and
dewormng programs."

Joseph Ejercito Estrada

Joseph Ejercit
sChistosomiasis Control Program
• In 2000, the Philippines’ Department
of Health adopted mass treatment as
its schistosomiasis control strategy
with the aim of disease elimination. Schistosoma japonicum, male

• Mass treatment is offered to all

residents ≥ 5 years of age,
in barangays with prevalence ≥ 15%

Schistosoma japonicum, cercariae

• Worked in coordination with the blood drive
coordinating center of NCR which is responsible
for blood drive assistance hotline and scheduling
of mass blood dtive activities .
• Establishment of the clearing house as 24 hour
blood assistance center blood stock monitoring
system which acts mainly as inventory center for
sharing of blood resources and monitoring of
blood stock levels in different hospitals.
• Provided subsidy for blood bank supplies and
materials and other operating expenses, blood
bank equipment, repair and operation
PhilhEalth indigEnt Program
• Coordination with the Department of Social
Welfare and Development (DWSD) brought
together representatives from the regional
and central offices of both agencies to
revisit policies and be updated on the latest
developments that are most beneficial to
covered beneficiaries under the Indigent
Program.
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• This category belong persons who have no
visible means of income, or whose income is
insufficient for family subsistence, as
identified by the Department of Social
Welfare and Development (DSWD), based
on specific criteria.
PhiliPPinE Plan of aCtion for nutrition
• Over 12-M Kid,3.7 Million Women Benefit
From Nutrition Program
• 9.9 M Pre-schools and 1.4 M school
children were provided with Vit. A, iodine
a n d i ro n s u p p l e m e nt s t h ro u g h t h e
g o v e r n m e n t ’s P l a n O f A c t i o n F o r
Nutrition
• 3.4 M lactating women also benefited the
program
• 759, 800 preschools and school children,
a n d 8 7 , 5 0 0 p re g n a nt wo m e n w e re
provided with supplementary feeding
• 200,700 mothers were also provided with
nutrition classes under the program
sEntrong sigla movEmEnt
• SS is a quality improvement initiative
through a certification/recognition program.
Health facilities are certified based on a set
of standards
• S S a l s o p ro m o te s co nt i n u o u s q u a l i t y
improvement as a complementing strategy
• Sentrong Sigla Movement is a joint project of
the DOH and local government units. Its
main strategy is certification of health
c e nte rs t h at a re a b l e to co m p l y w i t h
standards set by the DOH
http://www.newsflash.org/2000/01/pe/p
e001003.html
https://www.doh.gov.ph/sites/default/
files/publications/setting_agenda_for
_reform.pdf
https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/
86/10/07-047563/en/