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: