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Under the revised Comprehensive Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT) Act that was passed by the committee, a party-list MP advocated for the inclusion of seniors as recipients of free dialysis care.

Representative Rodolfo Ordanes of the Senior Citizen Party list said in a statement on Thursday that the proposal includes sets of policies on hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and kidney transplantation, including making these therapies affordable for all seniors and indigents and expanding the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) transplant benefit package.

If the bill is approved, almost 2.3 million Filipino patients could gain from it.

They won’t have to worry about the expense of the transplant or the diagnostics because the PhilHealth transplant package under the proposed legislation will cover both the patient and the potential organ donor.

The measure also raises the hemodialysis treatment coverage from two to four sessions per week and adds three peritoneal dialysis exchanges for a full year to the PhilHealth package fee.

According to Ordanes, these regulations and financial advantages also serve to “encourage more people to donate their kidneys through legal channels, safeguarding the donors’ health.”

He pointed out that the measure also establishes a five-year goal and mandate, requiring that all national, regional, and provincial levels have their dialysis service facilities and wards, as well as the necessary qualified employees, within that period.

Before receiving peritoneal dialysis or hemodialysis, all dialysis patients must register in the PhilHealth dialysis database.

The additional duty of accrediting dialysis training facilities has been added to the National Kidney and Transplant Institute’s responsibilities.

HBs 85, 156, 430, 1713, 1719, 1785, 2035, 2092, 2254, 2496, 2782, 2797, 3381, 3616, 4571, 5074, 5454, and 6238, which aim to offer Filipinos free medical check-up each year, have also been authorized by the House Committee on Health.

Stella Luz Quimbo, a representative from Marikina City, claimed that this program will improve the nation’s ability to administer primary healthcare.

She stated that although PhilHealth would carry out the program, funding for it had to come from the federal government and be allocated in the annual budget.

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