Pasay city: Access to healthcare and medicine for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), including their families, will soon be made easier through a new mobile diagnostic clinic and the Alagang OWWA Botika.
According to Philippines News Agency, at the ceremonial turnover of the mobile clinic in Pasay City on Thursday, OWWA Administrator Patricia Yvonne Caunan thanked First Lady Liza Araneta Marcos and President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. for donating a LAB for ALL mobile medical and clinical laboratory truck to the agency, which would benefit OFWs and their families.
Aside from the mobile clinic, OWWA also launched its Alagang OWWA Botika under the YAKAP (Yaman ng Kalusugan Program). Caunan highlighted that the program would be registered under PhilHealth's YAKAP initiative, ensuring free and sustainable healthcare services for OFWs, with PhilHealth covering the expenses.
The mobile clinic, equipped with X-ray, ultrasound, and laboratory facilities, will provide free consultations and diagnostic services exclusively to active OWWA members and their dependents. The program will commence with weekly operations at its headquarters in Pasay City.
OWWA also signed a memorandum of agreement with VidaCure, a partner of PhilHealth's YAKAP at GAMOT Program, to establish the Alagang OWWA Botika. This partnership will offer active OWWA members and their families direct access to essential medicines, starting with a rollout at the OWWA Central Office.
The program introduces an enhanced primary care package, expanding the former Konsulta Program to include free or subsidized consultations, laboratory and cancer screening tests, and other vital health services for active OWWA members and their families.
Initially, the mobile clinic will serve Metro Manila before expanding to regional OWWA offices, while the Alagang OWWA Botika aims to roll out nationwide in the coming months.
