Short answer. Yes. Section 11 of RA 8972 directs the Department of Health to develop a comprehensive health care program for solo parents and their children. The program is carried out through DOH hospitals and medical centers and through local government units' hospitals and rural health units.
What the law says
The DOH shall develop a comprehensive health care program for solo parents and their children.
RA 8972, Section 11 — Health Care Programme Developed. Read the full provision →
What the law provides
Under the heading of medical assistance, Section 11 states that The DOH shall develop a comprehensive health care program for solo parents and their children. The provision then names who delivers it: the DOH through their retained hospitals and medical centers and the local government units (LGUs) through their provincial/district/city/municipal hospitals and rural health units (RHUs). So the law places a duty on the health authorities to design a program and to deliver it through both national and local facilities.
Who it is meant to reach
The program is aimed at solo parents and their children — the very group the Solo Parents' Welfare Act is written to support. The design of the program, its scope and the services it includes are entrusted to the DOH, working with the local government units that run hospitals and rural health units on the ground. The article sets the mandate and the delivery channels; it leaves the detailed content of the program to be developed by the agencies it names.
The limits of this section
This provision is a directive to develop and implement a program; it does not, in its own words, list every benefit or guarantee free treatment for any particular illness. What a solo parent can actually access depends on the program as developed and on the services available at the DOH and LGU facilities. To claim support, a solo parent generally needs the recognition the law provides for that status. If you are raising children alone and need medical assistance, ask your local health unit and social welfare office how the solo-parent health program applies to you.
Eligibility and its later expansion
A practical point ties this to eligibility. The benefits under this law reach those the statute recognises as solo parents, and in practice access usually depends on obtaining the identification that proves that status through the social welfare office. Which caregivers count as solo parents was broadened by RA 11861, the Expanded Solo Parents Welfare Act, so someone who did not qualify before may qualify now. What none of this does is convert the health mandate into a guarantee of free treatment for a named illness; it directs the agencies to run a program and to deliver it through their facilities, leaving the concrete services to how that program is designed and funded.