PhilHealth Sabado (October 2, 2010) is the start of a continuing advocacy program to
increase awareness and knowledge of every Filipino on the importance of becoming a
PhilHealth member that will ensure access to quality health services to the member and his/
her dependents.
The program intends the registration of non-member informal sector under the individually
paying program (IPP). It also provides for an opportunity to automatically register and
distribute PhilHealth cards to about 800,000 indigents identified in the National Household
Targeting System (NHTS) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
The registration will be conducted in all the regional and service offices of PhilHealth, along
with DOH Centers for Health Development and DOH-retained hospitals nationwide.
PhilHealth Sabado fullfill universal health insurance coverage within three years as
promised in the first State of the Nation Address of President Benigno S. Aquino III. (PIA)