MANILA, Philippines – The Sagip Buhay Medical Foundation, an organization with the Philippine General Hospital’s Department of Medicine as its beneficiary, launched its website www.sagipbuhay.org recently.
The foundation provides healthcare to indigent patients in the PGH medical wards who could otherwise not afford treatment.
With the newly launched site, individuals and corporations will be able to support the foundation’s cause more easily through online credit card donations.
“We are excited to be on the World Wide Web,” said Dr. Rody Sy, chairman of Sagip Buhay. “Our contacts abroad — former PGH residents, UP doctors, and those interested in donating — will now be able to reach us more easily.”
Of the 10,000 sick patients who are admitted to the PGH charity wards each year, only five percent can afford the necessary treatment.
Sagip Buhay supports patients with little or no financial means by providing them free medicine, diagnostic tests, and procedures
“We administer the first set of antibiotics, the first dialysis session, and other procedures that can be life-saving in many instances, said Dr. Agnes Mejia, who chairs the PGH-Department of Medicine.
The foundation also supports the training of around 70 medical doctors per year across 14 fields of specialization through research grants.
“Donations, no matter how small, go a long way,” said Mejia. “P10 can buy a needle and syringe for blood extraction, P1,000 can buy three days’ worth of antibiotics for someone with pneumonia, and P5,000 can fund an emergency dialysis for someone with acute kidney failure.”
Those interested in contributing to the foundation’s cause may visit Sagip Buhay online via www.sagipbuhay.org, e-mail at sagipbuhay@gmail.com or contact Dr. Geraldine Zamora-Racaza (+63917-8114205), or Nilda Lique (+632-5264372).