PCSO

Going Beyond Charity and Social Welfare

The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) is the principal government agency for raising and providing funds for health programs, medical assistance and services, and charities of national character.

The PCSO holds and conducts charity sweepstakes, races, and lotteries and engages in health and welfare-related investments, projects, and activities to provide for permanent and continuing sources of funds for its programs. It also undertakes other activities to enhance and expand such fund-generating operations as well as strengthen the agency’s fund-management capabilities.

The main products of the PCSO are the sweepstakes and the lottery games. The sweepstakes game has steadily been evolving through the years to be able to conform with the changing times, to keep the game interesting to all Sweepstakes enthusiasts and to hopefully attract more clients, and to maintain a variety of Sweepstakes products readily available in the market. Various game types have been introduced and other game innovations are constantly being conceptualized, particularly of the traditional and scratch and match variety.

PCSO Charity

PCSO’s primary mandate is to provide funds in order to sustain free medical and health services to the poorest of the poor, and to augment the current resources of various institutions and organizations providing health services to the general public. This is carried out through a variety of programs:

• Mandatory Contributions

The PCSO is mandated by virtue of a special law to contribute funds for the following government entities: the Philippine Sports Commission, the Commission on Higher Education, the Comprehensive and Integrated Shelter and Urban Development Financing Program, the Philippine Centennial Commission, the National Commission on Indigenous People, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Quirino Memorial Medical Center.

The PCSO allocates to local government units a five percent (5%) share from the total sales of online lottery (lotto) outlets operating within their jurisdictions, including a documentary stamp tax from the said donation.

• Individual Medical

Assistance Program – Under this program, medical assistance is given to individual patients through the issuance of guarantee letters to hospitals where the patients are confined. A guarantee letter is a certification issued to hospitals for a particular

charity patient under the PCSO medical assistance program where the agency assumes the obligation of settling the cost of hospitalization, including the medicines, medical, surgical or blood supplies, and diagnostic procedures.

Objectives

• General : Restoration of social functioning (Physical recovery) through medical assistance

• Specific : Provide assistance for hospitalization expenses, laboratory procedures and purchase of medicines, chemo drugs, dialysis solutions, antibiotics, implants, devices and other medical needs.

• Endowment Fund Program: This program allocates funding assistance to government and private hospitals assistance to indigent patients in need of medical care, medicines, drugs, medical and surgical supplies, and diagnostic procedures for the management and treatment of various illnesses.

Objectives

• General : To grant fund to hospitals and other health facilities making health or medical services accessible to PCSO-authorized indigent patients

• Specific : Enable charity patients access to medicines, drugs, medical supplies, implants, blood, diagnostic and laboratory procedures

• Beneficiaries Institutional Assistance

The PCSO supports orphanages and other charitable institutions which take care of providing welfare services to the disadvantaged sector –the children and youth who are either abandoned or exploited, those who have experienced varied forms of abuse, the elderly and the physically and mentally handicapped, among others.

• Upgrading of Medical Facilities

The PCSO consistently contributes to the upgrading of health care facilities by providing financial assistance for the purchase of medical and surgical supplies, medical equipments and the construction and renovation of devolved and retained hospitals, municipal health centers, day care centers and private institutions implementing welfare programs nationwide.

• Medicine Donation

The PCSO consistently contributes to the upgrading of health care facilities by providing financial assistance for the purchase of medical and surgical supplies, medical equipments and the construction and renovation of devolved and retained hospitals, municipal health centers, day care centers and private institutions implementing welfare programs nationwide.

• Medical Equipment  Donation

The PCSO consistently contributes to the upgrading of health care facilities by providing financial assistance for the purchase of medical and surgical supplies, medical equipments and the construction and renovation of devolved and retained hospitals, municipal health centers, day care centers and private institutions implementing welfare programs nationwide.

• Outreach Programs

The PCSO’s community outreach programs involve the conduct of free medical ad dental missions in depressed areas within ad outside of Metro Manila. Under this program, the PCSO also gives to out patients free consultations and medicines. It undoubtedly is one of the most effective means of pursuing the agency’s commitment to the Filipino people is charity through free medical and dental services. Initially serving its officials and employees, referrals and walk-ins, the PCSO Charity Clinic’s services have now expanded to include depressed barangays in Metro Manila to as far as Sorsogon in the South and Isabela in the North.

The Out-Patient Clinic Department of the PCSO renders services from Monday to Friday to thousands of indigent patients at the PCSO Complex in Quezon City. Said clinic offers the following services: free consultations from resident, doctors and specialists, minor surgeries, ambulance conduction, of patients and emergency care, as well as referrals. It also undertakes community outreach projects on maternal and child health and primary health care.

• Special Programs

The PCSO also allocates and donates to local government units a 5 percent share from the total sales of on-line lottery (lotto) outlets operating within their jurisdictions, including of the documentary stamp tax for the said donation.

PCSO-Philhealth Greater Medicare Access (GMA) Program

• This program is a joint undertaking of the three most important health-financing agencies of the government, the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), and local government units (LGU). At the outset, the PCSO GMA Program is aimed at assisting the enrollment of 539,670 indigent families in PhilHealth’s Medicare para sa Masa program.

For the initial implementation of the program, the PCSO has allocated some P67 million is its counterpart funding for the LGU share.

Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan (KALAHI) Program

• As a government sector agency-member of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC), under the Basic Services for Human Development cluster, the PCSO has, as its contribution to the Poverty Alleviation Program of the Macapagal-Arroyo administration, donated medicines and provided financial assistance, conducted medical and dental missions, and provided tetra-pack milk during the Milk Feeding Programs in various KALAHI communities nationwide.

Gamot na Mabisa at Abot-kaya (GMA 50) Project

• As their response to the commitment made by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in her 2001 State of the Nation Address to make medicines more affordable to the general masses, the PCSO, Department of Health (DOH), Philippine International Trading Corporation (PITC), and the National Food Authority (NFA), have come together to jointly implement the government’s low-cost medicine program dubbed as “Gamot na Mabisa at Abot-Kaya (GMA 50) Project”.

Center for Health Improvement and Life Development (C.H.I.L.D.) House Project

• The Center for Life Improvement and Health Development (C.H.I.L.D) House Project for children and young adults who are afflicted with cancer and/ or other dreaded diseases, is a multifaceted health and social development undertaking of the Ricky Reyes

Foundation, an NGO, PCSO, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), Technology and Livelihood Resource Center (TLRC), Philippine Tuberculosis Society-Quezon Institute (PTS-QI), and various specialty hospitals and medical facilities, with the goal of “lessening the burden of the immediate families of people with cancer and/or other dreaded disease/s, by knowing that there is a place where they can temporarily stay while their loved one is undergoing treatment.” An oversight committee led by Presidential Daughter Ms. Luli Macapagal Arroyo as chairman, was formed to administer the period.

PCSO Emergency Center Project

• This project is aimed at establishing “emergency centers” at select provincial hospitals in strategic areas nationwide. A joint project of PCSO and DOH which aims set up emergency service facilities in 10 strategically located hospital-beneficiaries nationwide.

PCSO-NHA Kapalaran Housing Program

• The PCSO, in accordance with the National Housing Authority, allots funding for socialized housing projects for poor families in various areas nationwide, as mandated under Republic Act No. 7835, also known as the “Comprehensive and Integrated Shelter Financing Act of 1994” (CISFA).

Since its inception in 1934, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) has lived up to the challenge of its mandated mission and purpose and has remained unwavering in carrying out its vision of uplifting the quality of life of the Filipino people. The agency has well established itself as a model government institution with its unquestioned dedication to serve the disadvantaged sectors of society. With these, the PCSO has developed a strong credence and incontestable acceptance from Filipinos who have all come to believe and get comfort on the fact that the PCSO will always be there for them, as long as needs need to be satisfied and hopes and dreams need to be given life and fulfillment.

Our Vision

To uplift the quality of life of the Filipino people.

Our Mission

To be a model government agency in carrying out its responsibility to provide medical and health services to the disadvantaged sectors of society through a professional workforce with integrity, competence, a deep sense of accountability and transparency in all its official transactions.

Five Vision Pillars

The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, Mandated by RA 1169, as amended, commits five pillars to realize its Vision-Mission:

• Professional workforce with integrity, competence and a deep sense of accountability and transparency in all its official transactions;

• Timely adequate services

• Increased number of satisfied beneficiaries with improved health and other social conditions;

• Effective, efficient and self-reliant organization with strong operating system and infrastructure; and,

• Good corporate image