• 2 days ago
Purchase booklet no longer required to get senior meds discount; House solons laud removal of purchase booklet requirement

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00:00The Department of Health or DOH said senior citizens are no longer required to present
00:06their purchase booklets to avail 20 percent discount on medicines. According to Philippine
00:11News Agency's report, this came after DOH Secretary Teodoro Herbosa signed Administrative
00:18Order No. 2024-0017, which aims to remove the need for elderly to show a purchase booklet
00:27to drugstores together with a valid identification card and a doctor's prescription to get the
00:33discount. House Ways and Means Chair Joey Solceda expressed gratitude to President
00:39Ferdinand Marquez, Jr. and Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa for implementing a long-overdue
00:45change requested during joint committee hearings on benefits for senior citizens,
00:51PWDs, and solo parents. United Senior Citizens Party List Representative Milagros Aquino Magsaysay
00:58also thanked the DOH, emphasizing that it is considered as an early Christmas gift for senior
01:05citizens.

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