Health Secretary Teodoro J. Herbosa on Monday, Dec. 23, said purchase booklets are no longer required for senior citizens to avail 20 percent discounts on medicine purchases.
Herbosa has signed Administrative Order No. 2024-0017 removing the need for seniors to present a purchase booklet to drugstores together with a valid identification card and a doctor’s prescription to get the discount.
“I am also a senior citizen. I know it is hard to always bring a purchase booklet with you. Seniors need the discount on their medicines, and we must make it easy for them to get that,” he said in a statement.
Consistent with Republic Act 9994 or Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010, some provisions of AO No. 2010-0032 and AO No. 2012-0007 were also revised.
All other provisions of both administrative orders unaffected by the issuance remain in effect.*PNA