SCARCE budget, the lack of an enabling law and dedicated manpower had hampered public awareness on mental health problems, which in 2007 the World Health Organization (WHO) warned could be a “top burden of diseases among adults by 2030.”

Health experts, especially from the Department of Health (DOH), “should give importance to these components that could contribute in the campaign of helping Filipinos afflicted with mental health disorders cope with their situation and erase the stigma attached to the disease by the public,” a source told The Manila Times.

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