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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 207, July 21, 1993 ]

DECLARING THE THIRD WEEK OF JULY OF EVERY YEAR AS RESPIRATORY CARE WEEK

WHEREAS, the Philippine Association for Pulmonary Care, Inc. (PAPC) is a non-profit organization composed of respiratory therapists, doctors and nurses;

WHEREAS, PAPC aims to encourage, develop, and advance the art and science of respiratory care by promotion of the understanding and utilization of respiratory therapy;

WHEREAS, there is a need to focus national awareness and consciousness in the prevention and treatment of respiratory ailments;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare the third week of July of every year as Respiratory Care Week.ℒαwρhi৷

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 21st day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety three.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) TEOFISTO T. GUINGONA, JR.
Executive Secretary

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