Hospitalization in the Philippines is considered as one of the cheapest in Asia, and perhaps, the whole world. One of the reasons why medical tourism is a big industry in the country. However, the people who thinks we have a cheap healthcare are probably those from abroad who suffers from high cost of health maintenance in their own country.
For most Filipinos, being sick means a lot of money. The health care cost is not in any way cheap for the common people in the Philippines. A simple fever will cost you a couple of hundreds of pesos just for the medicine, a dengue fever patient will need a couple of thousands and cancer patients will need hundreds of thousands to millions.
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