CONFIRMING AND EXPANDING THE SCOPE OF THE AUTHORITY AND FUNCTIONS OF THE NATIONAL CANCER CONTROL CENTER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 1422
• Sections: 6

Preamble

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

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.

Section 2

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.

Section 3

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.

Section 4 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.

Section 5 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