As the world celebrates World Prematurity Day, today, Nov. 17, the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. in Central Visayas (Philhealth-7) highlights its Z Benefits for Premature and Small
The benefit aims to ensure delivery of quality of health service for mothers, who are about to give birth and improve the survival, health and well-being of pre-term and low birth weight babies.
And due to this from 2014 to 2017, the United Nations Children’s Fund , the Department of Health , and the PhilHealth worked together to help bring down neonatal mortality in the country developing a benefit package to integrate the necessary interventions for the prevention and management of complications from prematurity and low birth weight among newborns.
However, preterm and small babies, who are 32 weeks to less than 37 weeks by fetal ageing, are entitled to P24,000 to P71,000 worth of health insurance coverage under the Z Benefit.
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