The Office of the Vice President (OVP) was able to deliver basic services to the poor this year even without a budget for social services.

From January to November, 6,044 indigent clients received medical assistance from the OVP. The patients or their families requested help to pay for dialysis, hospital bills, chemotherapy sessions, medicines, surgery and other procedures, implants and hearing aids. The OVP released P43,931,861.87 or an average of 7,269 per client.

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