In addition the martial law period also jumpstarted an offshoot of current affairs programming - public service and non-news informative programs. GMA Network's "Kapwa Ko, Mahal Ko", launched in the fall of 1975, was the first and longest public service TV program in the Philippines. Having helped millions of viewers be aware of medical issues especially among the poor and lower middle class, its success also in providing medical care to indigent and poor families, as well as its revelations on the state of health facilities in far flung communities, led to the creation of the namesake foundation in 1976 and would also begin a new form of Philippine TV programming, that of medical and health related programs that would inform the public on health matters and on living healthy lives. That was the concept that helped BBC-2 launched its on medical affairs TV program in the early 1980s.