National Center for Mental Health

The National Center for Mental Health (Filipino: Pambansang Sentro ng Pangkaisipang Kalusugan), is a 4,200-bed psychiatric hospital occupying 47 hectares of land in the city of Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines.

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

Patients from the San Lazaro Hospital were transferred to the National Center for Mental Health in 1928.

[4][5] With the increasing number of patients being admitted, the center has resorted to soliciting donations from private sectors.

The National Bureau of Investigation got involved, but the question remains whether the death was a medico-legal or homicide case.