EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 94
REORGANIZING THE DIFFERENT EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS,
BUREAUS, OFFICES, AND AGENCIES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE
PHILIPPINES, MAKING CERTAIN READJUSTMENTS OF PERSONNEL AND REALLOTMENTS OF
FUNDS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
By virtue of the powers
vested in me by Republic Act Numbered Fifty-one, I, MANUEL ROXAS, President of
the Philippines, do hereby order —
SECTION 2
Section seventy–five of
the Revised Administrative Code, as amended, is hereby further amended to read
as follows:
SECTION 75
Executive Departments
There
shall be eleven executive departments, to wit: the Department of Foreign
Affairs, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Finance, the
Department of Justice, the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the
Department of Public Works and Communications, the Department of Education, the
Department of Labor, the Department of National Defense, the Department of
Health, and the Department of Commerce and Industry, which shall be under
the direct control of the respective Secretaries of Departments, exercising
their functions subject to the general supervision and control of the President
of the Philippines.
SECTION 3
Section seventy–six of the
Revised Administrative Code, as amended, is hereby further amended to read as
follows:
SECTION 76
Secretaries of Departments
The
Department of Foreign Affairs shall perform its functions under the executive
authority of the Secretary of Foreign Affairs; the Department of the Interior
shall perform its functions under the executive authority of the Secretary of
the Interior; the Department of Finance shall perform its functions under the
executive authority of the Secretary of Finance; the Department of Justice
shall perform its functions under the executive authority of the Secretary of
Justice; the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources shall perform its
functions under the executive authority of the Secretary of Agriculture and
Natural Resources; the Department of Public Works and Communications shall
perform its functions under the executive authority of the Secretary of Public
Works and Communications; the Department of Education shall perform its
functions under the executive authority of the Secretary of Education; the
Department of Labor shall perform its functions under the executive authority
of the Secretary of Labor; the Department of National Defense shall perform its
functions under the executive authority of the Secretary of National Defense;
the Department of Health shall perform its functions under the executive
authority of the Secretary of Health; and the Department of Commerce and
Industry shall perform its functions under the executive authority of the Secretary
of Commerce and Industry.
SECTION 125
The second paragraph of
Executive Order Numbered Three hundred seventeen, dated January seventh, nineteen
hundred and forty-one, is hereby amended to read as follows:
The
Department of Health shall be charged with the protection of the health of the
people, the maintenance of sanitary conditions, and the proper enforcement of
the laws and regulations relative to health, sanitation, food, drugs and
narcotics, slum housing, garbage and other waste disposal, and for these
purposes, it shall exercise executive supervision over the Bureau of Health;
the Bureau of Quarantine; the Bureau of Hospitals; the Board of Medical
Examiners; the Board of Pharmaceutical Examiners; the Board of Dental
Examiners; the Board of Optical Examiners; the Board of Examiners for Nurses;
the National Advisory Health Council; the Alabang Vaccine and Serum
Laboratories; the health departments of chartered cities; the national,
provincial, city and municipal hospitals, dispensaries and clinics except the
Philippine General Hospital; the public markets and slaughter-houses; hotels,
restaurants, and other food establishments; and health resorts and similar
establishments.
SECTION 126
The Alabang Vaccine and
Serum Laboratories together with its functions, duties, personnel, records,
documents, equipment, supplies and other property, and the Alabang Laboratories
Revolving Fund are hereby transferred to the Office of the Secretary of Health.
The Secretary of Health, the Commissioner of the Budget and the President of
the University of the Philippines shall determine the personnel who should be
transferred to the Office of the Secretary of Health in case they render
services both to the University of the Philippines and the Alabang Vaccine and
Serum Laboratories.
SECTION 127
Samples of biological
products manufactured in the Alabang Vaccine and Serum Laboratories shall be
submitted at least once a month to the Institute of Science for analysis to
determine their purity and efficacy. Copies of the report showing the results
of the analysis shall be furnished the Office of the President. Rules and regulations
for the securing and submission of samples of biological products for analysis
shall be issued jointly by the Department of Health and the Institute of
Science.
SECTION 128
Section nine hundred
thirty–eight of the Revised Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
SECTION 938
Functions of the Bureau of Health
The
Bureau of Health is charged with the protection of the health of the people of
the Philippines and the maintenance of sanitary conditions therein. Its general
powers and duties shall extend to and comprehend, among other things:
(a)
The
detection and detention of persons suffering from dangerous communicable
diseases and the making of provision for their isolation until they shall cease
to be source of infection;
(b)
The control
over the sanitation of schoolhouses and school premises and over prisons, penal
settlements, jails, and other places for the detention of arrested persons,
convicts, or offenders of any sort;
(c)
The
control and supervision of school medical service in private schools, colleges,
and universities;
(d)
The
effectuation and maintenance of internal quarantine in times of epidemic or
threatened spread of any dangerous communicable diseases;
(e)
The
inspection and investigation of the sanitary condition of coastwise passenger
vessels;
(f)
The
sanitary disposal of the dead and the control over the sanitation of
cemeteries;
(g)
The
effectuation, at regular intervals or from time to time as conditions may
require, of systematic vaccination and inoculations of the people of the
country by the use of virus, vaccines, sera, or other prophylactics;
(h)
The
dissemination of hygienic information among the people and especially the
inculcation of knowledge as to the proper care of infants and the methods of
preventing and controlling dangerous communicable diseases;
(i)
The
making, from time to time, of adequate inspections of all health organizations
or offices primarily concerned with the prevention of diseases, taking account
of their equipment and facilities and the character of their work; and;
(j)
The making
of an epidemiological study and/or investigation of preventable diseases,
especially those of an epidemic or communicable character; and the collection
of statistical data or other information relative to the sources of mortality
in the Philippines and the effects of localities, employments, conditions,
habits, foods, beverages, and medicines on the health of the people; and the
chemical composition and medical properties of the minero-medicinal waters of
the Philippines.
SECTION 129
There is hereby created a Bureau
of Hospitals under the executive supervision and control of the Department
of Health. The Bureau of Hospitals shall have one chief to be known as Director
of Hospitals whose salary shall be seven thousand two hundred pesos per annum.
The general powers and duties of the Bureau of Hospitals shall extend to and
comprehend, among other things:
(a)
The conduct and
management of Government hospitals (except the Philippine General Hospital),
leprosaria, and sanatoria;
(b)
The control and
supervision of all hospitals for dangerous communicable diseases;
(c)
The control and
supervision of maternity, mental, orthopedic, tuberculosis, and other special
hospitals;
(d)
The control and
supervision of skin disease clinics, venereal disease clinics, and other
medical units;
(e)
The control and
supervision of puericulture centers, charity clinics, and dispensaries; and
(f)
The supervision
of private hospitals.
SECTION 130
The Division of Hospitals
under the Bureau of Health is hereby abolished and all its powers, functions,
activities, personnel, documents, records, equipment, property, and
appropriations are transferred to the Bureau of Hospitals.
SECTION 131
The powers, functions,
activities, personnel, records, equipment, property, and appropriations of the
Division of Child and Maternal Health under the Bureau of Health are hereby
transferred to the Bureau of Hospitals.
SECTION 132
The Indigent Children’s
Hospital under the Bureau of Public Welfare, together with its personnel,
records, equipment, property, powers, functions, activities, and appropriations
are transferred to the Bureau of Hospitals.
SECTION 158
The Philippine General
Hospital is hereby transferred from the Office of the President to the
University of the Philippines, together with its personnel, powers, functions,
duties, records, equipment, supplies and unexpended balances of appropriations.
The appropriations for the Philippine General Hospital shall continue to be
itemized in the annual general appropriation acts.
SECTION 172
All Acts, Executive
Orders, Administrative Orders, or Proclamations or parts thereof inconsistent
with any provision of this Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.
SECTION 173
If any provision of this
Order should be held invalid, the other provisions shall not be affected
thereby.
SECTION 174
This Order shall take
effect as of July first, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, except where
otherwise stated.
DONE in the City of
Manila, this fourth day of October, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred
and Forty–Seven and of the Independence of the Philippines, the second.
This Executive Order
is composed of 174 sections. Some of the sections were deliberately omitted as
the purpose of this feature is as to how the Department of Health was created.
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