MANILA, Philippines – Some congresswomen expressed disappointment in government agencies’ lack of a concrete and unified plan for implementing the five-year-old mental health law that seeks to provide better services to the public.
Quimbo grilled the representatives of agencies who attended the briefing for not having a unified plan to provide school children better access to mental healthcare.She was referring to the Philippine Council for Mental Health , a multi-agency council created by the mental health law.
According to Dr. Razel Nikka Hao, director of the DOH’s Disease Prevention and Control Bureau, the council meets every quarter to discuss its mental health programs. “Every LGU or academic institution needs its own program for mental health services. What is the status of the effort in the LGUs and academic institutions? Yes, there are apps, but there’s supposed to be tangible actions or programs to [accompany] what was cascaded to the LGUs,” Brosasa said in Filipino.
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