Moreover, these documents should note and address the relationship between child abuse and intimate partner violence and describe how both children's agencies, as well as those dealing with abused women, could address this link. The Department of Health has health care professionals suitably trained to render counseling services, general emergency and medical care as well as a range of psycho-social services for victims of domestic violence. The DVA does not overtly state the need for health care services should be rendered to victims of domestic violence nor specify the direct role of the Department of Health hereto. Hence, a legislative amendment to this end was proposed with specifications followed up in the regulations.