SECTION 1. The first paragraph of section 2506—A under Article XI—A of the Revised Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 2506-A. Powers and duties of the city health officer.—There shall be a city health officer with compensation at the rate of eight thousand four hundred pesos per annum, who shall have charge of the Department of Health and Welfare, and shall be appointed by the President of the Philippines with the consent of the Commission on Appointments of the Congress of the Philippines. He shall have the following general powers and duties:"