Department Memorandum No. 2025-0215

Story Posted: June 03, 2025; 08:00 AM. Link to Post: bit.ly/dm2025-0215

Guidance on the Celebration of the World Patient Safety Day 2025

Download the issuance: DM No. 2025-0215 dated May 19, 2025

Addressed to all DOH executives, central and regional directors, BARMM Ministry of Health, directors of specialty hospitals, chiefs of hospitals and other health facilities, World Patient Safety Day is celebrated every September 17 per the 72nd WHA; guidance in Annex A of the issuance includes:

Lighting up iconic monuments, landmarks, public spaces in orange color
Conduct of virtual, face-to-face, or hybrid activities with safety protocols
Use of promo materials: bit.ly/WPSD2025
Other recommendations: Attendance to WPSD Virtual Lecture, patient safety rounds in the facilities, social media activities, promo materials distribution, open forums or town hall meetings, capacity building (including "Safe and Sound I" in the DOH Academy)
Documenting and submission of activity report: bit.ly/SubmitWPSDReport

See also: WHA 72.6 (Global Action on Patient Safety)

IMAGE CREDIT: World Health Organization

HEALTH CAMPAIGNS

DOH enjoins your full support in this advocacy to encourage voluntary, life-saving organ and tissue donation, and to help protect vulnerable individuals from trafficking, especially for the purpose of organ removal. Read: DM No. 2025-0214, and get the IEC materials here.

This May is the observance of EASE OF DOING BUSINESS MONTH with the theme "Red Tape to Red Carper: Better Business Movement in a Bagong Pilipinas." Read: DM No. 2025-0174 and DM No. 2025-0190.

May 7 of every year is HEALTH WORKERS DAY pursuant to Republic Act No. 10069. Download: R.A. No. 10069

WORLD HAND HYGIENE DAY, May 5, 2025, with the focus "It might be gloves. It's always hand hygiene." Visit the WHO's campaign site.

WORLD HEALTH DAY, April 7, 2025, will kick off a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health, with the title "Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures." Read about the campaign: www.who.int/campaigns/world-health-day/2025

PUBLIC ADVISORIES

Electronic Freedom of Information (eFOI)
For the DOH section of the eFOI Portal, please proceed to https://www.foi.gov.ph/agencies/doh. For reference, read also DM No. 2024-0423 dated November 4, 2024.

HFOB Sumbungan Portal
Bukas at handa na ang Health Facilities Oversight Board Sumbungan Portal. Bisitahin ang portal upang maghain, magsumite, at bantayan ang status ng inyong mga hinaing kaugnay ng Republic Act No. 10932 o ang Anti-Hospital Deposit Law.
I-scan ang QR Code o pumunta lamang sa hfob.doh.gov.ph

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