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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 212 - AMENDING
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 169
WHEREAS,
Presidential Decree No. 169 requires medical practitioners to report
the treatment of patients for serious and less serious physical
injuries as defined in Articles 262, 263, 264 and 265 of the Revised
Penal Code to the nearest Philippine Constabulary unit either
personally or by the fastest means possible, under pain of penal and
administrative sanctions;
WHEREAS, the said requirement was imposed during martial law to enable
law enforcement agencies to keep track of all violent crimes, conduct
timely investigation thereon and effect the immediate arrest of the
perpetrators thereof;
WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 169, being premised on the existence
of martial law, must yield to the people’s mandate to restore democracy
and to maintain the supremacy of civilian authority over the military;
WHEREAS, the duty to maintain peace and order in the community
principally belongs to the law enforcement agencies, and although the
cooperation of the citizenry, particularly the medical practitioners,
may be enlisted for the common good, it would encroach upon their
freedoms to compel them, under pain of penal and administrative
sanctions, to make certain reports to the Philippine Constabulary, an
entity that has no functional or administrative control or supervision
or even regulatory powers over them;
WHEREAS, a requirement to report such treatment, but to civilian
authorities, is needed to keep track of violent crimes;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, do
hereby order:
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The Board of Medicine shall have the original and exclusive jurisdiction to investigate, hear and decide, upon due notice, all cases of violations of this Act or of its implementing rules and regulations, subject to review by the Professional Regulation Commission when seasonably appealed thereto.”
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Done in the City of Manila,
this 10th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty-seven.
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