The National Center for Mental Health ( fil, Pambansang Sentro ng Pangkaisipang Kalusugan), is a 4,200-bed

psychiatric hospital Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental health hospitals, behavioral health hospitals, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, dissociat ...

occupying 47 hectares of land in the city of

Mandaluyong Mandaluyong, officially the City of Mandaluyong ( fil, Lungsod ng Mandaluyong), is a first class highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 425,758 people. Loca ...

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. It is

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-accredited.

History

Formerly known as the Insular Psychopathic Hospital, the Mandaluyong Mental Hospital, and the National Mental Hospital, was established on 17 December 1928. It was founded in order to accommodate the increasing number of mental patients and other patients with related nervous system conditions who, in 1925, were being taken care of by two hospitals, namely the

San Lazaro Hospital The San Lazaro Hospital (SLH) is a tertiary health facility in Manila, Philippines. It is a referral facility for communicable diseases and is one of the retained special tertiary hospital of the Department of Health and is funded by subsidy fr ...

(in its "Insane Department") and the City Sanitarium in the Philippines. The

insane asylum The lunatic asylum (or insane asylum) was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital. The fall of the lunatic asylum and its eventual replacement by modern psychiatric hospitals explains the rise of organized, institutional psychiatry ...

hospital was built under ''Philippine Public Works Act No. 3258'' at a location in Barrio Mauway, Mandaluyong, Rizal near the City of

Manila Manila ( , ; fil, Maynila, ), officially the City of Manila ( fil, Lungsod ng Maynila, ), is the capital of the Philippines, and its second-most populous city. It is highly urbanized and, as of 2019, was the world's most densely populate ...

. Patients from the San Lazaro Hospital were transferred to the National Center for Mental Health in 1928. Patients from the City Sanitarium were transferred in 1935. The National Center for Mental Health is currently under the

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. With the increasing number of patients being admitted, the center has resorted to soliciting donations from private sectors.

Controversy

There was a controversy at the center in 2012 because of the unexpected death of a 41-year old male patient. The patient was confined in the hospital since 1998 due to paranoid schizophrenia attributed to drug abuse. The National Bureau of Investigation got involved, but the question remains whether the death was a medico-legal or homicide case.

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* {{Metro Manila hospitals Hospital buildings completed in 1928 Government buildings completed in 1928 1928 establishments in the Philippines Hospitals in Metro Manila Buildings and structures in Mandaluyong

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