GSIS, Pfizer ink partnership

CEBU, Philippines - To provide better health care for government employees, the Government Service Security Insurance System entered into a partnership with Pfizer, one of the leading pharmaceutical firms in the country, to launch the GSIS eCard Plus.

Yesterday, GSIS and Pfizer formally launched the GSIS eCard Plus which will be available to almost 1.5 million GSIS members and pensioners.

Albert Mateo, country manager of Pfizer, explained that through the GSIS eCard Plus, GSIS members and their dependents will be able to access to their Sulit Patient Care Program, which gives them up to 50 percent discount in 22 of Pfizer’s leading medicines.

The Sulit Patient Care Program is “the longest-running and most comprehensive patient care program in the Philippines today with over 1.8 million patients who have already benefited around the country.”

Mateo said that the partnership is aimed to provide quality medicines to GSIS members at very affordable prices.

“Pfizer has been helping improve healthcare in the Philippines and the partnership with GSIS is a manifestation of that continued commitment and we thank GSIS for allowing us to use their eCard Plus platform to reach this sector of the Filipino population,” Mateo said.

GSIS President and General Manager Winston Garcia said that through the “power packed eCard,” their members could start availing themselves of discounts in over 1,860 drugstores nationwide.

“This partnership will help our members become healthier, productive individuals,” said Garcia, who shared that this is the first partnership that GSIS has made with a pharmaceutical company.

He said GSIS members would not need to bring so many cards with them because their eCard Plus will serve as their official identification card, hospitalization discount card, savings account card, ATM card, and debit card in Visa-accredited merchant stores. — AJ de la Torre/LPM (THE FREEMAN)