Providing a List of Mental Health Professionals to DOH Leaders
DOH Department Circular No. 2020-0198 emphasizes the importance of mental health for Department of Health (DOH) employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. It expresses gratitude for their hard work and outlines the provision of free mental health and psychosocial services from volunteer professionals, including a list of psychiatrists and psychologists available for assistance. The circular encourages employees to manage their mental well-being and offers contact details for accessing these services. Overall, it aims to support the mental health of health workers amidst ongoing challenges.
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- What is Providing a List of Mental Health Professionals to DOH Leaders about?
- DOH Department Circular No. 2020-0198 emphasizes the importance of mental health for Department of Health (DOH) employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. It expresses gratitude for their hard work and outlines the provision of free mental health and psychosocial services from volunteer professionals, including a list of psychiatrists and psychologists available for assistance. The circular encourages employees to manage their mental well-being and offers contact details for accessing these services. Overall, it aims to support the mental health of health workers amidst ongoing challenges.
- What type of law is DOH Department Circular No. 2020-0198?
- Providing a List of Mental Health Professionals to DOH Leaders (DOH Department Circular No. 2020-0198) is a Philippine Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) Issuances enacted by the Congress of the Philippines.
- When was Providing a List of Mental Health Professionals to DOH Leaders enacted?
- Providing a List of Mental Health Professionals to DOH Leaders (DOH Department Circular No. 2020-0198) was enacted on May 5, 2020.
- What is the citation for Providing a List of Mental Health Professionals to DOH Leaders?
- Providing a List of Mental Health Professionals to DOH Leaders, DOH Department Circular No. 2020-0198, May 5, 2020 (Philippines)
Law Information
- Reference Number
- DOH Department Circular No. 2020-0198
- Date Enacted
- Subcategory
- Department of Health
- Jurisdiction
- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
Full Law Text
May 5, 2020
DOH DEPARTMENT CIRCULAR NO. 2020-0198
| FOR | : | All Undersecretaries; Assistant Secretaries; Directors of Bureaus and Services; and Employees of DOH Central Office |
| SUBJECT | : | Providing a List of Mental Health Professionals to DOH Leaders |
Amidst the COVID-19 situation, we would like to express our deepest gratitude for your exemplary contribution in safeguarding the health of the Filipino people. Thank you very much for your dedication, time, hard work and for being in the forefront of this health emergency to ensure that we provide quality health services.
We know that the fight is still far from over. As such, we are making sure that we conserve our inner resources to be able to meet the country's expectations and demands. Therefore, it is important that we manage our mental health and psychosocial well-being during this time.
In line with this, we would like to offer you a list of top mental health professionals, psychiatrists and psychologists who volunteered to provide the needed mental health and psychosocial services for free in order to help alleviate effects of stress and cope up with the situation (see Annex A).
If you have inquiries, please contact Ms. Frances Prescilla Cuevas, Chief Health Program Officer/OIC-Division Chief of Essential Non-Communicable Division (ENCDD)-Disease Prevention and Control Bureau, through email: [email protected]; or telephone: (632) 651-7800 local 1750-1752.
(SGD.) MYRNA C. CABOTAJE, MD, MPH, CESO IIIUndersecretary of Health
ANNEX A
List of Mental Health Professionals
A coordinator will answer your call. Please inform them you are a DOH Official and state your name and contact number. They will lead you to a pool of counselors who will contact you.
The support service that will be provided will be stress debriefing and counseling.
Psychiatrist whom you can call directly:
1. DR. BEN VISTA — 09258289502
2. DR. BERNADETTE MANALO — 09178290595; 09209816432 (viber)
3. DR. BENITA PONIO — 09189144919
4. DR. FAREDA FLORES — 09189057825
5. DR. BELEN DIMATATAC — 09499002121 (viber)
6. DR. CARMELA ENCARNACION — 09189167020
7. DR. BENG RAMOS-GO — 09179777237
8. DR. SALLY DEL VALLE — 09178676996
9. DR. CHONA BELMONTE — 09173051771
10. PSYCHOLOGISTS IN TOUCH PHILIPPINES — +639081419557; +639560534257
Cite This Law
Providing a List of Mental Health Professionals to DOH Leaders, DOH Department Circular No. 2020-0198, May 5, 2020 (Philippines)
Providing a List of Mental Health Professionals to DOH Leaders, DOH Department Circular No. 2020-0198 (Phil. 2020)
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- Mental Health ActRepublic Act No. 11036 • Jun 20, 2018 • Statutes
- Implementing Rules and Regulations of Republic Act No. 11036, Otherwise Known as the Mental Health ActIRR of RA 11036 • Jan 22, 2019 • Implementing Rules and Regulations
- Establishment of Lungsod Silangan Mental Health CenterPresidential Decree No. 1541 • Jun 11, 1978 • Presidential Issuances
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