AMENDING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 306, ENTITLED "CONVERTING THE MAJOR FERDINAND E. MARCOS HOSPITAL IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF BAYOMBONG, PROVINCE OF NUEVA VIZCAYA, INTO THE MAJOR FERDINAND E. MARCOS VETERANS' REGIONAL HOSPITAL"

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 376
• Sections: 3

Preamble

WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 306, dated October 5, 1973,

converted the Major Ferdinand E. Marcos Hospital in the Municipality of

Bayombong, Province of Nueva Vizcaya, into the Major Ferdinand E.

Marcos Veterans' Regional Hospital;

WHEREAS, in order to give due recognition to the status of

said hospital as a Veterans' Regional Hospital and to promote the

greater efficiency and administrative flexibility thereof, there is

reason to place it directly under the Department of Health, thereby

removing it from any form of supervision or control of any regional

office of said Department;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the

Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution as

Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and

pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, and General

Order No. 1, dated September 22, 1972, as amended, do hereby order and

decree to be part of the laws of the land the following:

Section 1

SECTION 1. Section 3 of Presidential Decree No. 306 is

hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 3. The Veterans' Hospital shall be directly under

the administrative supervision and control of the Department of Health

and as such shall not be subject to the supervision and/or control of

any regional office of said Department.

Section 2

SEC. 2. This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 4th day of January, in the year

of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President

Republic of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) ROBERTO V. REYES

Assistant Executive Secretary