December 3, 2019
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11463
AN ACT ESTABLISHING MALASAKIT CENTERS IN ALL DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (DOH) HOSPITALS IN THE COUNTRY AND IN THE PHILIPPINE GENERAL HOSPITAL (PGH), PROVIDING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
SECTION 1. Short Title. — This Act shall be known as the "Malasakit Centers Act."
SECTION 2. Declaration of Policies. — It is the declared policy of the State to improve the delivery of health care services to the people, and to ensure access to and efficiency in the process of availing medical and financial assistance to fund health services. Towards this end, the State shall:
(a) Adopt a multi-sectoral and streamlined approach in addressing health issues and affirm the inherently integrated and indivisible linkage between health and social services consistent with the whole-of-government, whole-of-society and whole-of-system framework of Republic Act No. 11223, otherwise known as the "Universal Health Care (UHC) Act";
(b) Ensure that patients experience compassion and empathy or Malasakit, and receive respect and dignity in the availment of health services; and
(c) Provide medical and...
