by Dong de los Reyes March 15, 2022 Quezon lawmaker Dr. Helen Tan LUCENA CITY - Quezon lawmaker Dr. Helen Tan wants the nation to produce mo...
March 15, 2022
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| Quezon lawmaker Dr. Helen Tan |
LUCENA CITY - Quezon lawmaker Dr. Helen Tan wants the nation to produce more health workers, especially doctors with the state providing the monies and resources for needy but deserving students seeking to go into the medical profession.
Thus, she crafted a measure, enacted as R.A. 11509-- the Doktor Para sa Bayan Act of 2020-- that fits out a medical scholarship and return service program for the deserving and qualified Filipino students in state universities and colleges or private higher education institutions to meet the nation's demand for physicians.
The Helen Tan measure was enacted on December 23, 2020.
The law tasks the government to defray a medical student's cost of schooling-- tuition and other expenses, book allowance, equipment, uniforms, dorm and fare costs, internship fees including cost of medical review and licensure fees.
As payback gesture, the scholar-doctor under the Tan law will render a "return service program" in the countryside for 6-7 years.
The law aims to ensure ample number of medical professionals working in the country's far-flung areas and at the same time uplift the lives of scholars and their families.
Lawmaker Rep. Tan who chairs the House of Representatives health panel envisions the entry of more physicians in the nation's talent pool and to fulfill the dreams of many students who wish to become doctors but are constrained by money difficulties.
As of April 2020, there were ten doctors per 10,000 population in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. the Philippines' doctor-patient ratio, at present, is at an alarming. 1:28,000.
The outbreak of the Covid pandemic has aggravated this imbalance.
World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a doctor to population ratio of 1:1,000.
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