MANILA: President Rodrigo Duterte signed a law that extends free services to some 20 million Filipinos suffering from various forms of mental illnesses.
“Help is finally here. No longer shall Filipinos suffer silently in the dark. The people’s mental health issues will now cease to be seen as an invisible sickness spoken only in whispers,” Senator Risa Hontiveros, principal author of the Mental Health Law, said in a statement.
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