Presidential Decree No. 1422 (PD 1422) — Confirming and Expanding the Scope of the Authority and Functions of the National Cancer Control Center of the Department of Health.
WHEREAS, cancer ranks among the first five killers of
mankind throughout the world;
WHEREAS, the nationwide incidence, morbidity and mortality
from cancer in the Philippines is rising as compared to the reduction of
communicable and other diseases;
WHEREAS, cancer, a complex disease, spares no social class
and strikes regardless of sex, age and social status;
WHEREAS, it is one of the goals of the New Society to
provide first class cancer management for all, most especially the rural and
urban poor;
WHEREAS, the National Cancer Control Center of the
Department of Health was created to plan, establish and carry out an effective
nationwide program of cancer prevention detection, diagnosis, pre-treatment
evaluation, treatment, rehabilitation, and continuing care through a nationwide
promotion and application of the available and new methods for reducing the
incidence, morbidity and mortality from cancer;
WHEREAS, the National Cancer Control Center has assumed the
leadership and is now the nucleus and coordinating body for all cancer work in
the Department of Health;
WHEREAS, the National Cancer Control Center is presently
studying and evaluating the cancer problem in the Philippines and formulating
effective nationwide policies to solve this problem; and
WHEREAS, the ultimate goal of the government, through the
National Cancer Control Center, is to totally eradicate this disease which
causes so much misery, suffering and death among our people;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
order and decree:
SECTION 1. The authority and functions of the National
Cancer Control Center of the Department of Health as promulgated by Department
of Health Administrative Order No. 188-A, s. 1973, are hereby confirmed and
shall be expanded in scope in order to assume leadership in coordinating cancer
control activities of other government and private agencies to unify and render
more effective their efforts and in order to avoid overlapping and duplication
of activities.
SEC. 2. The National Cancer Control Center of the Department
of Health, through its Director, shall, whenever necessary, call meetings with
the heads of all agencies involved in cancer work in order to render advice and
assistance in their respective activities thus helping them attain their
objectives.
SEC. 3. To carry out its expanded authority and function,
the National Cancer Control Center of the Department of Health, aside from its
regular budget appropriation, shall be appropriated additional funds out of any
funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the yearly amounts of
which shall be determined by the Secretary of Health through the recommendation
of the Director of the National Cancer Control Center. The appropriation of
additional funds for this purpose shall be made available the year following the
effectivity of this Decree.
Repealing Clause.
SEC. 4. Repealing Clause.—Any provisions of the
law, decree, order, rules or regulations inconsistent herewith are hereby
repealed, revised or amended accordingly.
Effectivity Clause.
SEC. 5. Effectivity Clause.—This Decree shall take
effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila, this 9th day of June, in the year of Our Lord,
nineteen hundred and seventy-eight.
(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the
Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) JACOBO C. CLAVE
Presidential Executive
Assistant
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