(SUPERSEDED BY EO 258, s. 1958)
Section 1. The Division of Tuberculosis in the
Department of Health, hereinafter called the Division, is re-organized
to include an administrative section with a statistical, motor and
electrical maintenance, library, and buildings and grounds maintenance
units; a section of clinics and therapy; a section of prevention and
immunization with a BCG immunization and children's clinic, and health
education and social service units; a section of X-ray operation and
maintenance; and a section of TB laboratory and research.cralaw
The Division shall have a chief and an assistant chief who shall be
appointed by the Secretary of Health and shall receive annual
compensation at the rate of seven thousand two hundred pesos and six
thousand pesos, respectively. It shall also have such technical,
clerical and other personnel as may be determined by the Secretary of
Health who shall appoint them and fix their compensation in accordance
with law; Provided, however, That all the subordinate personnel of the
present Division of Tuberculosis in the Department of Health shall
continue in office with at least the same compensation.cralawSec. 2. The Division shall have the following
functions:
(a) To coordinate, direct, and implement a
well-balanced, comprehensive and intensive scheme of tuberculosis
control services in the country, including prevention by direct (BCG
immunization) and direct methods, diagnosis, treatment, social
rehabilitation, public health training (for laymen and medical
personnel) research, epidemiological and statistical studies, and
national and international pooling of information;
(b) To establish and maintain at least thirty
fully-equipped, fully-manned provincial TB centers within four years,
complete with diagnostic laboratory, X-ray and treatment facilities
(surgical and non-surgical), giving free services;
(c) To operate and supervise wards for TB patients
in provincial hospitals where there are provincial TB centers;
(d) To establish and maintain at least thirty mobile
X-ray units within four years in order to reach rural areas with no
access to the chest center;
(e) To establish and maintain at least thirty mobile
TB prevention units to undertake mass BCG immunization of susceptible
children and young adults, intensive health education of the public by
all possible means (loudspeaker attached to wagons, lectures, movies,
leaflets,) home-visiting by home-visitors in rural areas, and gathering
of epidemiological information on TB;
(f) To establish and maintain at least six village
rest settlements, in strategic and suitable geographic areas in all the
three principal regions of the Philippines, for patients with initial
or convalescing tuberculosis who have no place in sanitaria or
hospitals, and to facilitate their rehabilitation and replacement, as
well as those of their families, into normal society by teaching them
gainful occupations under proper medical control;
(g) To establish and maintain a National
Tuberculosis Center to serve as the central headquarters for the
direction of public health tuberculosis work throughout the country, to
receive all reports, and statistical and epidemiological information,
to serve as training center in tuberculosis for all categories of
public health workers in the country;
(h) To pool all information on tuberculosis and
exchange such information with other countries; and
(i) To cooperate with all agencies, governmental and
voluntary, in matters of general public health welfare.cralaw Sec. 3. There is created the National Advisory
Council on Tuberculosis to be composed of the Secretary of Health, as
Chairman, one representative each of the Department of Labor,
Department of Education, and Social Welfare Administration, to be
designated by their respective heads, a representative of the
Philippine Tuberculosis Society, and a representative each of two civic
organizations to be designated by the President of the Philippines. The
chief of the Division of Tuberculosis shall be the executive secretary
of the National Advisory Council on Tuberculosis. The said Council
shall give advice to the Division regarding the performance of its
functions.cralaw Sec. 4. The FOA-PHILCUSA and WHO-UNICEF-assisted
TB and BCTG units when they are ready to the turned over fully to the
Government, all tuberculosis clinics supported by provincial or city
agreements if the provinces and cities concerned agree, and all the TB
public health activities of the Department of Health, Department of
Education, and Social Welfare Administration are transferred to the
Division of Tuberculosis as herein reorganized. The said Division is
authorized and directed to receive, staff, and maintain any TB center
or pavilion which the Philippine Tuberculosis Society may turn over
voluntarily to the Division.
Sec. 5. In lieu of the appropriations for the
present Division of Tuberculosis in the Department of Health, there is
appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, the sum of two million five hundred thousand pesos, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the purposes of this Act
for the fiscal year nineteen hundred fifty-five. The necessary sum for
the operation of the Division in subsequent years shall be included in
the General Appropriation Act.
Sec. 6. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.cralaw
Approved: June 16, 1954
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