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The Quintin J. Gomez Award is the highest award given by the PSA to an Individual that has made outstanding contribution(s) to the science and practice of anesthesiology. The Quintin J. Gomez Award is given only once to an individual.

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The following is a copy of the PSA letter to PHIC addressed to Dr. Rey Aquino:
 

May 15, 2009

REY  B. AQUINO, MD
PRESIDENT AND CEO
PHILIPPINE HEALTH INSURANCE CORPORATION
Citystate Center, 709 Shaw Boulevard, Pasig City

Re: Reimbursement of Professional fees for Anesthesia Services

Good Day Dr. Aquino,

We write in reference to Section B, subsection 2 letter c of PhilHealth Circular No. 16 s-2009 and Section 4 , subsection c of the proposed, unpublished PhilHealth Circular regarding Reimbursement of Professional fees for Anesthesia Services. In summary, the two circulars removed and excluded PhilHealth reimbursement of professional fees for anesthesia services in Cataract Packages. There is little other interpretation for this exclusion except that this Honorable Office appears to consider Anesthesia Care given by qualified and competent anesthesiologists as an unimportant part of a cataract surgery.

The Philippine Society of Anesthesiologists, Inc (PSA) most humbly take exception to this exclusion. Anesthesia care is important and sometimes even essential to a cataract surgery. It is a recorded fact by the American College of Surgeons that cataract is closely related to aging. Because of this, cataract patients usually have concurrent medical problems such as coronary heart disease as well as dysfunctional problems of aging, including psychosocial, economic and nutritional difficulties. The concurrence of all these medical difficulties make anesthesia care of utmost importance in Monitored Anesthesia Care and Conscious Sedation for cataract surgery.

Also, it is widely recognized that monitoring by a qualified anesthesia personnel is appropriate for cataract surgery because the ophthalmologist is fully occupied in the surgical technique, and will not be able to effectively deal with emergencies in a timely manner should the need arise.

PSA Online now includes the Distance Education Program in Anesthesiology. The PSA-DEPA is the first on-line learning in anesthesiology worldwide. It is an educational program under the Office of the PSA President. The DEPA is approved by the Philippine Board of Anesthesiology (PBA) for board examination eligibility for anesthesiologists trained in non-PBA-accredited training institutions as of December 31, 2000 or earlier; and for those who took the DOH-six-month training as of 1997 or earlier and are practicing anesthesiologists for at least 10 years. Graduates of PBA-accredited training institutions can avail of DEPA modules as a review or update on the specialty.