Department of Health, Philippines: Annual Report 2015

2015 was an exciting year for the public health sector as we continued to develop and implement breakthrough policies to achieve universal health care.

The National Health Insurance Program of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) covered 92 percent of our total population by December 2015. A special milestone for the year was the implementation of the mandatory PhilHealth coverage for senior citizens which benefited 5.4 million Filipino residents 60 years old and above.

The Health Facilities Enhancement Program, with its goal to ensure equitable access to affordable health care, funded 1,828 health facilities nationwide within the year. We provided mobile dental vehicles to local government units and added dentists to our cadre of human resources for health.