Department Memorandum No. 2025-0552

Story Posted: December 12, 2025; 11:00 AM. Link to Post: bit.ly/dm2025-0552

Invitation for All Government and Prviate Hospitals and Concerned Center for Health Development Personnel to the Orientation on the Public Health Unit Manual of Operations

Download the issuance: DM No. 2025-0552 dated December 3, 2025

Batch 1 Registration: tinyurl.com/PHUbatch1
Batch 2 Registration: tinyurl.com/PHUbatch2
Deadline for Registration: December 15, 2025 (Monday)

By authority of Secretary of Health, signed and issued by Atty. Christian Lel Saquilabon, Assistant Secretary of Health, includes the Batch 1 and Batch 2 links for registration, and as annexes to the issuance, the respective Programs of Activity.

Originated from HFDB: Address further inquiries about this issuance to the HFDB's Health Systems Development and Management Support Division.

See also: DC No. 2025-0436 (PHU Manual of Operations)

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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

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)
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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

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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