Executive Order No. 424 (1951)
Further Amending Executive Order Numbered Twenty-Four, Dated November Twelve, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Six, as Amended By Executive Order Numbered Eighty-Six, Dated September Three, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Seven “Creating the National Advisory Health Council.”
MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 424, March 10, 1951 ]
FURTHER AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBERED TWENTY-FOUR, DATED NOVEMBER TWELVE, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX, AS AMENDED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBERED EIGHTY-SIX, DATED SEPTEMBER THREE, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN “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, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
“NOW, THEREFORE, I, ELPIDIO QUIRINO, 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 | Chairman The Undersecretary of Health | Vice-Chairman The Director of Health | Member The Director of Quarantine | Member The Director of Public Schools | Member The Dean, College of Medicine , UP | Member The Dean, College of Medicine , UST | Member The Dean, College of Medicine , MCU | Member The Chairman, Board of Medical Examiners | Member The Chairman, Board of Dental Examiners | Member The President, Philippine Medical Association | Member The President, Philippine Public Health Association | Member The President, Philippine Federation of Private Medical Practitioners | Member The President, Philippine Pharmaceutical Association | Member The President, League of District and City Health Officers | Member The President, Filipino Nurses Association | Member
The members of the Council shall serve without Compensation and their term shall be co-terminous with their tenure in their regular positions.”
Done in the City of Manila, this 10th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifth.
(SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(SGD.) TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary