SPECIAL PROGRAMS

The PCSO also allocates and donates to local government units a 5 percent share from the total sales of on-line lottery (lotto) outlets operating within their jurisdictions, including of the documentary stamp tax for the said donation.

PCSO-Philhealth Greater Medicare Access (GMA) Program

• This program is a joint undertaking of the three most important health-financing agencies of the government, the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), and local government units (LGU). At the outset, the PCSO GMA Program is aimed at assisting the enrollment of 539,670 indigent families in PhilHealth’s Medicare para sa Masa program. For the initial implementation of the program, the PCSO has allocated some P67 million as its counterpart funding for the LGU share.

Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan (KALAHI) Program

• As a government sector agency-member of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC), under the Basic Services for Human Development cluster, the PCSO has, as its contribution to the Poverty Alleviation Program of the Macapagal-Arroyo administration, donated medicines and provided financial assistance, conducted medical and dental missions, and provided tetra-pack milk during the Milk Feeding Programs in various KALAHI communities nationwide.

Gamot na Mabisa at Abot-kaya (GMA 50) Project

• As their response to the commitment made by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in her 2001 State of the Nation Address to make medicines more affordable to the general masses, the PCSO, Department of Health (DOH), Philippine International Trading Corporation (PITC), and the National Food Authority (NFA), have come together to jointly implement the government’s low-cost medicine program dubbed as “Gamot na Mabisa at Abot-Kaya (GMA 50) Project”.

Center for Health Improvement and Life Development (C.H.I.L.D.) House Project

• The Center for Life Improvement and Health Development (C.H.I.L.D) House Project for children and young adults who are afflicted with cancer and/or other dreaded diseases, is a multifaceted health and social development undertaking of the Ricky Reyes Foundation, an NGO, PCSO, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), Technology and Livelihood Resource Center (TLRC), Philippine Tuberculosis Society-Quezon Institute (PTS-QI), and various specialty hospitals and medical facilities, with the goal of “lessening the burden of the immediate families of people with cancer and/or other dreaded disease/s, by knowing that there is a place where they can temporarily stay while their loved one is undergoing treatment.” An oversight committee led by Presidential Daughter Ms. Luli Macapagal Arroyo as chairman, was formed to administer the period.

PCSO Emergency Center Project

• This project is aimed at establishing “emergency centers” at select provincial hospitals in strategic areas nationwide. A joint project of PCSO and DOH which aims set up emergency service facilities in 10 strategically located hospital-beneficiaries nationwide.

PCSO-NHA Kapalaran Housing Program

• The PCSO, in accordance with the National Housing Authority, allots funding for socialized housing projects for poor families in various areas nationwide, as mandated under Republic Act No. 7835, also known as the “Comprehensive and Integrated Shelter Financing Act of 1994” (CISFA).