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maternal and newborn care package

1. Maternal and Child Package Benefits in the Philippines Presented by: Charlene sote & Nica Suayan

2. Background

3. Importance of Maternal and Child Health Focusing on maternal and child health ensures early intervention during pregnancy and infancy, preventing complications and long-term illnesses. It promotes healthy behaviors among mothers, including proper nutrition, birth spacing, and early childhood care. Prioritizing this area leads to stronger, healthier families and communities overall.

4. Role of PhilHealth

5. Eligibility and Coverage

6. Maternity Care Package (MCP) Overview The Maternity Care Package provides financial coverage for normal spontaneous deliveries, ensuring mothers receive safe and complete care. It includes antenatal, intrapartum, and immediate postpartum services delivered by trained health professionals. The MCP supports safe facility-based births, promoting skilled attendance during labor and delivery.

7. MCP Components and Services The package covers regular prenatal checkups, essential laboratory tests, ultrasounds, and proper documentation of pregnancy progress. Delivery services include monitoring, safe birthing procedures, and postpartum evaluation of both mother and baby. Health education on breastfeeding, family planning, and postnatal recovery is also included.

8. Benefit Amounts Normal Spontaneous Delivery Package (including post-partum care) This covers normal, low-risk vaginal deliveries, including the postnatal follow-up visits from 72 hours (3 days) up to 7 days after delivery. Hospital coverage is ₱5,000, then ₱6,500 for birthing homes and maternity clinics. The following are other methods of delivery covered by PhilHealth : Cesarean section – ₱19,000 Complicated vaginal delivery with or without episiotomy or forceps – ₱9,700 Breech extraction/delivery – ₱12,120 Vaginal delivery after cesarean section – ₱12,120

9. Newborn Care Package (NCP) Provisions of essential newborn care  such as immediate drying of the baby, early skin-to-skin contact, cord clamping, non-separation of mother and baby for early breastfeeding initiation, eye prophylaxis and vitamin K administration, weighing of the baby, and first doses of hepatitis and BCG vaccines. Newborn Screening Test  screens the baby as early as possible for 28 genetic disorders that may cause intellectual retardation. The screening test must be done a few hours after delivery. Newborn Hearing Test  is mandatory for all infants unless the parents or legal guardians of the newborn object to the screening due to cultural or religious beliefs.

10. Z-Benefits for High-Risk Cases

11. How to Avail the Benefits

12. Complementary Policies and Programs

13. Barriers and Challenges

14. Barriers and Challenges

15. References Department of Health. (2017). National Safe Motherhood Program. https://doh.gov.ph PhilHealth. (2015). Circular No. 025-2015: Maternity Care Package. https://www.philhealth.gov.ph PhilHealth. (2017). Circular No. 2017-0009: Z-Benefits for Preterm and Small Newborns. PhilHealth. (2024). Circular No. 2024-0012: Updated Benefit Packages. World Health Organization. (2016). Strategies Toward Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM). Filipiknow . (2025). PhilHealth Maternity Benefits 2025 https://filipiknow.net/philhealth-maternity-benefits/#1-maternity-care-package-mcp Thank you for listening!