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Number of doctors per medical society in the Philippines

Requested from DOH by J. Suiza at 05:27 PM on Oct 12, 2023.
Purpose: For research and development
Date of Coverage: 10/01/2023 - 10/12/2023
Tracking no: #DOH-501862867239

Suiza 05:27 PM, Oct 12, 2023 

Hi,

I would like to ask the following information:

1. Number of doctors per medical society in the Philippines per region
2. Number of hospitals / medical centers in the Philippines classified into private, government, primary, secondary, tertiary

Receiving Officer 08:59 AM, Oct 13, 2023 

October 13, 2023

Dear Jasmine Suiza,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Oct 12, 2023 05:27:20 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

Your Request

You asked for Number of doctors per medical society in the Philippines.

Response to Request

Your FOI request is approved. 

May we refer you to the DOH HRH Statistics through the PowerBI dashboard http://bit.ly/HRHStat-2022 and National Database of Selected Human Resources for Health at https://ndhrhis.doh.gov.ph/xtrn_main.php, for HRH information from the years 2016 to June 2023. The said platform readily provides data on the distribution of selected health professionals reporting in private and public health facilities in the health sector.

Visit the DOH National Health Facility Registry (NHFR) website at https://nhfr.doh.gov.ph/VActivefacilitiesList for the list of health facilities in the Philippines

Please be informed that we can only provide some of the information requested as we do not gather data on Number of doctors per medical society in the Philippines. We ask that you directly coordinate with medical societies on this request

Thank you

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Thank you.

Respectfully,

FOI Receiving Officer
FOI Receiving Officer

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