Og-ogbo for Health

The value of sharing and self-reliance regarding health care was realized in our cooperative and municipality with the program on "Sharing for Health or Og-ogbo for health."This program aims to provide medical assistance to in-patient and out-patient members and their dependents, to share one another's burden and to encourage savings among the members for health protection.

This is a joint program of the Besao MPC, Besao LGU and the Besao District Hospital conceptualized for the benefit of the community. This is a strategic partnership since BMPC has staff but with meager resources while the LGU has sufficient fund but lacks the staff to manage the program. The LGU remits to the cooperative its annual financial assistance of 60,000 pesos every year including assistance from the fourteen (14) barangays of Besao amounting to 5.00 pesos per capita totaling to more or less 90,000 per year. This is to augment the annual premium of four hundred eighty pesos from member families.

Members are entitled to a financial package of 800.00 pesos per year for out-patient medicines and a maximum of 1,500 pesos for in-patient and out-patient hospital services. There is an average of 327 in-patient and out-patient beneficiaries/claimants per year. At present, there are more than three hundred members enrolled in the program. It's immense progress are due to the overwhelming support of officers and members, good governance and the local governments ( both municipal and barangay ) participation in exercising its social responsibility to this noble cause.