Maceda Law also applies to commercial lot sold on installments

Dear PAO, Jean and I agreed that she will buy my lot classified as commercial. She paid the down payment of the price agreed upon and the remaining balance will be paid in equal monthly installments for three years. She religiously paid for a year until she missed payment for five months. I already sent […]

Conditions for entitlement to 20% senior citizen discount on medicines

Dear PAO, The other day, my father, who is already a senior citizen, tried to purchase his medicines at a pharmacy. However, the pharmacist refused to apply the 20-percent senior citizen discount on medicines because of his alleged failure to present his Purchase Slip Booklet. I went back to the said drugstore and brought with […]

Disadvantaged students may take examinations without test permit

Dear PAO, I am currently in junior high school. My lola has partially paid for my tuition fee during the start of the school year, but we are now struggling to pay for the balance. You see, even at her old age of seventy, my lola still sells vegetables in our local market to support […]

Denial by attending physician due to lack of facilities 

Dear PAO,I am an attending physician in a small hospital in our locality. Yesterday, an unconscious man was brought by the emergency ambulance. Unfortunately, our small hospital cannot accommodate him due to lack of facilities. However, because he is unconscious and does not have any relative with him, I could not get consent to transfer […]