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Department Circular No. 2025-0541
Department Circular No. 2025-0541
Guidelines for the Operationalization of Tourist First Aid Facilities in Tourism Destinations
Guidelines for the Operationalization of Tourist First Aid Facilities in Tourism Destinations
Download the issuance: DC No. 2025-0541 dated November 24, 2025
By authority of the Secretary of Health, signed and issued by Dr. Emmie Liza Perez-Chiong, Undersecretary of Health, addressed to DOH executives, central and regional directors, BARMM Ministry of Health, chiefs of DOH hospitals, LGU executives, guidelines include scope of services, facility design and equipment, location, operating hours, staffing, patient navigation and referral, information.
Did not originate from HFDB: Address further inquiries about this issuance with the Health Tourism Program under Undersecretary Perez-Chiong. HFDB, through its HFDUs in CHDs, identified for technical assistance provision.
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HEALTH CAMPAIGNS
HEALTH CAMPAIGNS
2025 WORLD AIDS DAY, December 1, 2025, with the theme "Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response." See also: DC No. 2025-0540
18-DAY CAMPAIGN TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, November 25 to December 12, 2025, with the 2022-2027 recurring theme, "UNiTE by 2030 to End Violence Against Women." Visit the PCW's campaign page.
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
PUBLIC ADVISORIES
URBAN POOR SOLIDARITY WEEK, December 1 to 7, 2025, with the theme "Sama-sama sa Pag-ALPAS sa Bagong Pilipinas" pursuant to Proclamation No. 367, s. 1989. See also DOH MC No. 2025-0047.
MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 87, SERIES OF 2025, dated July 11, 2025, "Directing All Government Agencies and Instrumentalities, and Encouraging Local Government Units and the Private Sector, to Promote Awareness of the Philippines as a Maritime and Archipelagic Nation." (Read from the Official Gazette)
IMAGE CREDIT: Official Gazette of the Philippines Facebook Page
IMAGE CREDIT: Official Gazette of the Philippines 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.
(IMAGE CREDIT: National Commission on Culture and the Arts)
(IMAGE CREDIT: National Commission on Culture and the Arts)
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.
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
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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NATIONAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES' WEEK, pursuant to Proclamation No. 1130, s. 1997, to be celebrated from December 1 to 7, 2025, with the theme "Nagkakaisang Lingkod Bayani: Talino, Dangal, at Serbisyong Tapat sa Bagong Pilipinas." Read DOH MC No. 2025-0043 issued in support of the celebration.
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