I am happy to announce that the government health insurance that I am using to sustain my dialysis session is now extended which means that I will no longer pay out of pocket after my dialysis allocations for this year will all be used-up.
As a dialysis patient beneficiary I am allocated with 90 sessions for the whole year and if I would scrimp on using it without any disturbance, i.e. added emergency needs like surgery, etc I can extended my allocations even up to the month of November if I would only go for dialysis twice a week which I am doing right now.
Last January I went to use a whole month's worth of dialysis because I had an appendectomy and I have to use my health insurance for that purpose and due to the fact that I got dialyzed in the hospital and not in my dialysis center.
So because of that my dialysis allocations was cut short of one month which will supposedly fall in the month of October and not in November.
My mother was contemplating on where we would source my out of pocket expenses even though I am still confident that I can still pay for it but still my mother insists of going to the government charities and offices just to get some funds or guarantee letter to patch for those months that I will suppose to pay with.
Fortunately a law in basically extending the use of my government health insurance for my dialysis until there is a CoViD-19 pandemic got passed already by the Senate and Congress and approved by the president of my country just recently.
So now it is like an ease of needle that has been plucked out from our chests kind of relief when we learned about that news and it just dissipated our worries in having to problematize about those months that we should pay because it is no longer the case right now.
Over 70,000 End-stage renal disease or dialysis patients will benefit from that law, the so-called "Bayanihan We Heal As One Act" which aims to help the people in combating the threat of the CoViD-19 pandemic.
People's lives will be saved now and no one or almost no one will now get the very heavy burden in paying-up their dialysis sessions in particular because of the heroic act of my country's leaders particularly the president of the Philippines, may God continue to guide him on how he should govern my country because some of the citizens really needs a competent leader especially the sick and the vulnerable like the dialysis patients.