AIA Philippines partners with TMC for enhanced Cancer Treatment and Prevention

Insurance company AIA Philippines has partnered with The Medical City (TMC) through its Cancer Institute and corporate foundation, Akbay Ginhawa Foundation, Inc., to make cancer care services more accessible and affordable for Filipinos. AIA welcomes the partnership as it is integral to its “Healthier, Longer, and Better Lives” campaign, which aims to provide breast cancer services to targeted communities.

AIA Philippines is a newly launched program of the Augusto P. SAriento Cancer Insitute (APSCI) called “SCREen And Prevent Cancer” (SCRAP). The program aims to give patients access to necessary cancer care prevention, screening, early diagnosis, treatment, and end-to-end patient navigation.

“We emphasize on the importance of health as an investment, and I think this is where the partnership with AIA is centered,” said TMC President and CEO Dr. Eugenio Jose Ramos during the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement between TMC and AIA Philippines held on February 11, 2022.

“Today, AIA Philippines and The Medical City are joining forces to make quality cancer care more accessible and affordable to Filipinos. We aim to provide services in the diagnosis, surgical procedures, treatment procedures, as well as supplies and medicines needed by patients diagnosed through the program,” said Leonardo Tan, Jr., Chief Marketing Officer of AIA Philippines.

TMC-APSCI also aims to offer free mammograms and consultations to women aged 50-69 years under its Community Outreach Screening Program.

APSCI Director Dr. Beatrice Tiangco related that the partnership between TMC and AIA Philippines began when she met AIA Philippines Environmental, Social and Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility Consultant Max Ventura.

According to Tiangco, Ventura willingly aided in her cancer advocacy of “every preventable cancer averted, every screenable cancer detected, and every cancer patient counted.”

“The one thing I learned working with Max is we need to develop trust. It has blossomed now into a very good working relationship, and this is something that I hope TMC-APSCI will experience together with AIA. Together, we will screen, prevent, and eventually, totally scrap cancer from the Philippines,” said Dr. Tiangco.

Source: Inquirer