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PAL FOUNDATION
PAL Foundation
Medical Travel Grant
Philippine Airlines (PAL) Foundation helps impoverished Filipinos through PAL Medical Travel Grants. This may be free-of-charge (FOC) or just a discount on the PAL fare, so indigent Filipino patients may travel via PAL, for treatment as charity or service cases, for serious medical ailments. The PAL Medical Travel Grant is only for the fare portion of a PAL ticket so the PAL medical travel grantee must still pay all the other charges such as the insurance and taxes on the PAL Ticket.

Requirements
The patient's family or local Non-Government Organization (NGO) sponsor must submit the following documents:

  1. Formal letter of request to The Executive Director, PAL Foundation for sponsorship of the fare of the indigent patient specifying:
    1. Medical and financial reasons for needing PAL Medical Travel Grant
    2. Patient's complete name, home address, landline/cell phone numbers and e-mail address (if any), the preferred routing and approximate date of travel. For a child, please attach a photocopy of his/her birth certificate.
    3. Escort's full name and relationship to patient
  2. Proof that the applicant is a charity or service patient such as:
    1. Letters of acceptance from the hospital and from the sponsoring local or foreign NGO
    2. Patient's medical abstract on attending physician's or hospital letterhead including a filled-out PAL Medical Information Form (MEDIF) which is available at any PAL ticket or branch offices, or may be downloaded from our website http//www.philippineairlines.com
  3. Proof of indigence such as:
    1. LGU social services and development office social case history and report on the patient and family extensively detailing their socio-economic status and lifestyle
    2. Family breadwinner's Income Tax Return (ITR) for the last two years or a certification from the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) that the household head or breadwinner is exempted from filing an ITR
PAL foundation needs at least 10 working days from the date the PAL Medical Travel Grant application is received at our office in the Maintenance Base Center, Gate 1 Andrews Avenue, Nichols. Provincial applicants may also send their complete applications care of the PAL branch manager in their locality. Requirements may also be sent by e-mail to palfoundation@pal.com.ph.

How to exchange the PAL Trip Pass for a ticket
Should Philippine Airlines, through PAL Foundation, grant a trip pass for the patient and escort, this may be exchanged for a ticket at the PAL Center ticket office located at Legazpi Street, Makati or at the PAL provincial ticket office. The patient and escort must still pay all the other charges such as insurance surcharge and taxes on the ticket which are not part of the PAL fare.

Sign Release & Waiver before ticket issuance
An adult (at least 18 years old) patient who gets a PAL Medical Travel Grant must sign the release and waiver. A minor (below 18 years old) patient's parent or guardian must sign the release and waiver for him or her. A PAL employee at the airport or ticket office must sign as a witness to this release and waiver. Just click on the link provided at the right hand side of this page

Special concerns about oxygen and other medical equipment
If the PAL MEDIF indicates that the patient needs oxygen inflight, the patient's own attending physician must certify in writing the the escort will administer the patient's oxygen and take care of any of the patient's emergency procedures while inflight. The patient must get a more recent PAL MEDIF from the PAL flight surgeon within three days of departure.

The patient must provide and be responsible for any other medical equipment he may need while inflight, at the departure and arrival areas and have this equipment cleared by the PAL Safety & Environment department.

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Arrow MEDIF Form
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Menchu A. Sarmiento
Executive Director
PAL Foundation
Maintenance Base Center
Gate1, Andrews Avenue
Nichols, Pasay City 1309
Tel: (632) 851-2980
       locals 2143, 2563
Fax: (632) 852-6096
Red Arrow menchu_sarmiento@pal.com.ph
Red Arrow palfoundation@pal.com.ph

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