Aster Health Card

Despite all the publications, investigations, books, column inches, airtime and screen-time dedicated to it, the practice of medicine remains, for all practical purposes, invisible. The image of the doctor continues to be an idealized model that reflects people's aspirations rather than their actual experience.1 While medical practice is continuously improving, it has not kept up with patients' rising expectations. Many things are much better than they were, but few things are as good as people have been led to expect.2 What patients expect is what they can understand and often amounts to a perception of attitude. Ironically, in the mid-20th century, when medicine could do a great deal less than it can now, much more attention was given to attitudes because, in practice, that was all doctors had to offer patients.
 

These attitudes: kindness, caring, good communication, honesty, reliability, trust – the interpersonal parts of doctoring, which are critical to patient perception – form the fabric of the cloak of invisibility that continues to defy a more complete understanding of the practice of medicine. These attitudes and attributes, built on critical personal values, have been eroded through pernicious dilution by our preoccupation with the rise of scientific medicine.4–8 A survey by the General Medical Council (GMC) in 2000 reported that only 60% of doctors believed

Integrating Quality Healthcare Across Boundaries. The Birth of a New Era in Healthcare is building the future in healing, care and hope. Aster DM Healthcare has a legacy of providing quality healthcare and accessible to all.

Your friendly neighborhood family clinic that makes quality and affordable healthcare accessible to you.

ASTER HealthCards are now available for outpatient consultation, laboratory and diagnostic services. NO age limit and medical screening required. Perfect for SMEs and household employees. The clinic is owned by Aster DM Healthcare, one of the fastest growing private sector healthcare providers int he Gulf Region, Middle East and India.

ASTER HEALTHCARDS

ELITE CARD (Php 6,000.00)

Gold card containing 10 Free doctor consultations, 1 comprehensive annual physical examination package and 5% discount on dental services, laboratory services, radiology services, preventive vaccines program for adults including flu vaccine, hepa vaccine, chicken and HPV vaccine. 5 % discount on ultrasound procedures and heart station services including treadmill stress test and ecg.

PLUS CARD (Php 3,000.00)

Silver card containing 4 Free doctor consultations, 1 comprehensive annual physical examination package and 5% discount on dental services, laboratory services, radiology services, preventive vaccines program for adults including flu vaccine, hepa vaccine, chicken and HPV vaccine. 5 % discount on ultrasound procedures and heart station services including treadmill stress test and ecg.

DELUXE CARD (Php 1,500.00)

Green card containing 2 Free doctor consultations, 1 Basic annual physical examination package and 5% discount on dental services, laboratory services, radiology services, preventive vaccines program for adults including flu vaccine, hepa vaccine, chicken and HPV vaccine. 5 % discount on ultrasound procedures and heart station services including treadmill stress test and ecg.

May 4, 2016/ 10am at St. Francis Square, where ASTER Medical & Diagnostic Clinic is located.

ASTER, a name synonymous with world-class treatment is now in the Philippines.

Building on the reputation and goodwill of the large number of medical centres and neighborhood family clinics of the Aster DM Healthcare Group as a gateway to good health, Aster DM Healthcare is now in the Philippines to bring quality healthcare at an affordable cost within everyone’s reach. Aster DM Healthcare extends its hands to the Filipino people to deliver comprehensive healthcare in a customized and friendly atmosphere with world-class facilities based on global standards.

ASTER EXECUTIVE CHECK-UP - a premium preventive health screening process to help you lead a healthy, fuller, and productive life.

Dr. Nicco Alegro, a Health Talk about Obesity and Hypertension.

The Dubai-based conglomerate seeks to lend its time-tested and world-class experience a cross the country's healthcare industry, including its services, practices, and technology that are all at par with global standards.


Aster Medical and Diagnostic Clinics aims to cater to the mid-segment of the population, mostly composed of employees who have some form of HMO coverage. Dr. Moopen says that in the UAE, Aster DM Healtcare provides services to a wide spectrum of markets, which they hope to eventually replicate in the Philippines. "For the past 28 years, we have been setting up clinics and hospitals across the GCC region, Middle East, and India, and we are hoping to do the same in the Philippines," states Dr. Moopen.



While the clinic is Aster DM Healthcare's first business venture in the Philippines, the conglomerate has been familiar with the country since 2013. For the last three years, the conglomerate's charity arm, the Dr. Moopen (DM) Foundation, has been operating the Save the little Hearts program, which grants free heart surgeries for children born with congenital heart defects.


The group also recently launched Dr. Aster Mobile, a mini-hospital on wheels that travels accross the country to offer free primary medical care, wherever it is needed, and will also be used for industrial check-ups. It is built with all the facilities needed to provide diagnostic, laboratory, x-Ray, medical check-ups, specialists' consultation, and first aid treatment. The mobile clinic is also fully staffed by a doctor, nurse, radiographer and medical technologist, who are all ready to use their expertise to offer healthcare services.


In addition to elevating the quality of healthcare in the Philiipines, Aster DM Healthcare seeks to provide moreemployment opportunities for Filipino healthcare professionals. Currently, there are about 2,000 Filipinos in their network, which the group sees to grow significantly in the next coming years.


With its first clinic in the Philippines, Aster DM Healthcare hopes to become the preferred healthcare provider in the hearts and minds of the Filipinos.


For more information about Aster DM Healthcare and DM Foundation, visit www.asterdmhealthcare.com and www.drmoopensfoundation.org, respectively.