The government is studying opportunities in niche services that will allow the Philippines to establish its footprint in the medical tourism industry, according to Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez Jr.
Multilevel marketing company Amway expects to post “high double-digit” growth in the Philippines this year and the next amid growing consumption and high economic growth.
The segment of the local business process outsourcing industry that serves the healthcare sector is expected to grow sharply over the next four years on the back of strong demand from developed countries.
Maxicare Healthcare Corp. is launching prepaid packages for non-enterprise clients in an effort to keep revenue growth at double digits.
It was the talk of Davos, grabbing the imagination of a forum otherwise shrouded in gloom: a miracle machine that cracks the code of life within hours and could revolutionize healthcare.
It is interesting to note that here in the Philippines, the acronym PHAP answers to two separate and unrelated organizations. One is the Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines Inc., established in March 1979 by a group of private hospital administrators and medical professionals while the other is the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Association of the Philippines, a much older group—established in July 1946—formed by 10 individuals representing the era’s leading pharmaceutical wholesalers.
Local firm Maxicare Healthcare Corp. is seeking to modernize the country’s healthcare industry by tapping new technologies that will make it easier for claimants to get affordable medical attention when they need it.
Despite initiatives to improve the current state of the Philippine healthcare system, 60 percent of Filipinos who succumb to sickness die because quality healthcare remained elusive to them.
For most Filipinos, a pharmacist is simply one who sells medicine – one who stands behind drugstore counters, busily taking the prescriptions from customers and giving them the medicines they need. “The perception of the community is that the pharmacist is just a seller of the drug and you can’t blame them because that is [...]
