Health and Wellness with PhilCare | Mommy Madness

Last week I had the chance to be included in PhilCare's 33rd Anniversary Festivites, and with it they launched their Online Shopping website for Healthcare services.



[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Philcare president and CEO Noemi Azura Explaining PhilCare's Advocacy[/caption]

Since online shopping is quite the norm these days due to convenience, PhilCare has joined the bandwagon to ensure an easier way to get accessible health care, through the launch of their new website, which lets Filipinos purchase prepaid health card in three simple steps:

1. Online purchase of cards


2. Card gets delivered nationwide


3. Hassle-free SMS activation of cards

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="427"] We did puzzles and the first to solve it is the winner. Sad that we didn't win but we sure had fun :)[/caption]

We had a few fun games for the first part of the program, and a raffle draw where one of us mommies won a trip for 2 to Palawan for a 3-day 2 night stay..



Talk about Wellness eh?! :)





The tea party was a blast too as we were served delicious food from Chateau 1771 and this Beef Salpicao over Carbonara which is just THE BOMB and I'm still trying to figure out the recipe for it hehehe...



The health cards that were explained to us were the ER Vantage prepaid card, which is a one-time use emergency care leading to admission health card for individuals 6 months to 64 years old, which provides coverage of hospital emergency care leading to admission, up to the plan benefit limit for treatment of medical emergency cases due to accident or illness except for cases declared as non-coverable. They are shown in 3 plans, each with different limits such as ERVantage40, 60 and 80, each with benefit limits of 40,000 and ward room; 60,000 and semi-private room and 80,000 plus a private room. And you'll only be shelling out 900Php to 1300 Php per card, respectively.

They have another health card known as the HealthVantage prepaid card which is basically the same as the ERVantage card except for the part that it's reusable until the credit limit is burned up, plus a lot more benefits like:

• No hospital deposit required


• Allow use of special modalities of treatment which are medically necessary during ER and confinement and subject to standard inner limits


• With Php 50,000 accidental death and dismemberment coverage


• With Php 10,000 life insurance coverage

I had a lot of fun and one realization during their afternoon tea party celebrations- Health is the one we should treasure the most next to our family and God. I mean, if you're not healthy or don't practice wellness then in one way or another, you'll be falling sick and in the process, failing your family cause you can't help out with a lot of things.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"] with mommy friends Millie of http://notyourordinarymom.com and Krystalline of http://unfoldedbyxtal.blogspot.com/[/caption]

Before I end this post, I would like to tell you a story concerning my second pregnancy with baby Rafael.. You see, I was into burgers and pancit canton and other salty stuff during my first and second trimester. I was pretty much still eating my veggies and following doctor's orders except for the fact that I also consume a lot of salty food.

Come the start of the third, I incurred a back pain the day before I had a raging fever, temperature up to 40.3 deg. Celsius... I also vomited and fainted during the same night. Turns out I had some sort of bacterial infection in my kidney, something that happened when I didn't notice that I had UTI, and said bacteria creeped up to my kidneys to wreak havoc. It was an emergency situation and I incurred bills from 2 hospitals as I got transferred, cause the first hospital didn't have the proper equipment to check out the bacterial infection happening. The bills got up to 50,000 Php, and the sad part is that said money is what I was gonna use when I deliver my baby. I mean, how can you try to save up enough within 2 months on a minimum wage earn?

Looking back, I wish I had known of PhilCare, and had availed of the ERVantage card that they had, or maybe even the HealthVantage card that could've helped me and pichi with the expenses.



There really is no better treasure than Helath and Wellness. Well, that and being prepared for an Emergency :3 Philcare ‘s mission of being responsive to their market while ensuring cost and service efficiency has brought health care closer to Filipinos and reaching a wider customer network through their new website. Visit www.philcare.com.ph to shop online for health care sources ;)