Department Memorandum No. 2025-0397

Story Posted: September 15, 2025; 03:00 PM. Link to Post: bit.ly/dm2025-0397

Invitation to the Capacity Building for the Chiefs of the Allied Health Professional Service of Level 3 DOH Hospital on November 24 to 28, 2025

Download the issuance: DM No. 2025-0397 dated September 9, 2025

Register one participant per DOH hospital: bit.ly/CapBldgCAPSConfirmation
Deadline for registration: September 19, 2025 (Friday)

By authority of the Secretary of Health, signed by Atty. Christian Lel Saquilabon, Assistant Secretary of Health, addressed to all DOH executives and regional directors, BARMM Ministry of Health, directors of specialty hospitals, and chiefs of concerned DOH Level 3 hospitals, includes link to register participation of the Chiefs of Allied Professional Service of the concerned DOH hospitals.

Originated from the HFDB: Address further inquiries to the HFDB's Policy, Planning and Program Development Division.

See also: DBM-DOH Joint Circular No. 3, s. 2022 (Revised Standards on Organizational Structure and Staffing Patter of Level III Government Hospitals with 200 to 1,500 Beds, CY 2022 Edition, Phase I)

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HEALTH CAMPAIGNS

WORLD PATIENT SAFETY DAY, September 17, 2025, "Patient Safety from the Start!" Safe care for every newborn and every child. Visit the World Health Organization's WPSD 2025 campaign page.

GENERICS AWARENESS MONTH, celebrated every September, commemorates the enactment of R.A. No. 6675, "Generics Act of 1988," and on its 37th year, with the theme "Generics, Ramdam ng Bawat Pilipino." READ: DC No. 2025-0337, and download IEC materials at tinyurl.com/GenericsSMCs2025

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.

PUBLIC ADVISORIES

23RD DEVELOPMENT POLICY RESEARCH MONTH with the theme "Reimagining Governance in the Age of AI." Read posts on the PIDS Facebook page: Ways to Participate in the 23rd DPRM, and How to Use the DPRM Banner 2025

MARITIME AND ARCHIPELAGIC NATION AWARENESS MONTH, or MANAMo, celebrated every September per Proclamation No. 316, s. 2017, this year with the theme "Nagkakaisang Kapuluan, Panatag na Karagatan." View post about #MANAMo2025 on National Maritime Center's Facebook page.

CENTENNIAL YEAR OF MANLILIKHA NG BAYAN HAJA AMINA APPI, June 25, 2025 to June 24, 2026, pursuant to Proclamation No. 963, series of 2025. Read: MC No. 2025-0026 that encouraged observance of the Centennial Year.
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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

WORLD SUICIDE PREVENTION DAY 2025, September 10, with the theme "Changing the Narrative on Suicide" per DC No. 2025-0356. Support and participate in this observance; access the communication package at bit.ly/WSPD2025.

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