MEDICAL SOCIAL SERVICE
The PMMGMPC chapter acknowledges that health is a basic human right; thus, it adheres to the Government’s efforts in ensuring that every Filipino gets quality health care regardless of his socio-economic status. It also seeks to maintain its people-oriented atmosphere through its timely delivery of medical services.
In line with its mission, the PMMGMPC chapter takes responsibility in providing immediate assistance to patients in need, be it medical or financial and considers it as social responsibility in spite of financial limitation. Furthermore, the PMMGMPC believes in the importance of understanding the interrelationship of socio-economic and emotional factors affecting health and wholesome family and community life.
- GENERAL OBJECTIVE:
To meet problems which directly or indirectly affect patient’s health and social functioning through provision of social services and mobilization of internal and external resources for an integrated and holistic approach of treatment.
- SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
- To help patients adjust to the hospital situation, its scope and services, limitations, policies, rules and regulations.
- To help patients pay their hospital obligations through referral to government and non-government funding agencies such as PCSO, DSWD, etc.
- To make patients and their families work towards the development of their inner selves in preparation for a healthier and self-reliant way of life.