MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 78, October 25, 1954 ]
FURTHER AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 24 DATED NOVEMBER 12, 1946, ENTITLED “CREATING THE NATIONAL ADVISORY HEALTH COUNCIL.”
The second paragraph of Executive Order No. 24 dated November 12, 1946, as amended by Executive Order No. 86 dated September 3, 1947, Executive Order No. 424 dated March 10, 1951, Executive Order No. 429 dated April 7, 1951, and Executive Order No. 454 dated June 22, 1951, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
“NOW, THEREFORE, I, RAMON MAGSAYSAY, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby create a body to be known as the National Advisory Health Council to study problems of public health and sanitation and to make such recommendations as it may deem necessary for the improvement of public health and sanitation and the promotion of medical research. The Council shall be composed of the following:
| “The Secretary of Health |
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Chairman |
| The Undersecretary of Health |
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Vice-Chairman |
| The Director of Health |
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Member |
| The Social Welfare Administrator |
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| The Secretary of Education |
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| The Secretary of National Defense |
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| The Dean, College of Medicine, U.P. |
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| The Dean, College of Medicine, U.S.T. |
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| The Dean, College of Medicine, M.C.U. |
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| The Chairman, Board of Medical Examiners |
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| The Chairman, Board of Dental Examiners |
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| The President, Philippine Medical Association |
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| The President, Philippine Public Health Association |
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| The President, Philippine Federation of Private Medical Practitioners |
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| The President, Philippine Pharmaceutical Association |
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| The President, League of District and City Health Officers |
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| The President, Filipino Nurses Association |
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| The President, Philippine Medical Women’s Association |
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| The President, Colegio Medico-Farmaceutico de Filipinas |
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| The Chairman, Board of Pharmaceutical Examiners |
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| The President, Philippine Mental Health Association |
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“The members of the Council shall serve without compensation and their term shall be co-terminous with their tenure in their regular positions.”1a⍵⍴h!1
Done in the City of Manila, this 25th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the ninth.
(Sgd.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary
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