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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 764 -
RELATIVE TO THE SCHOOL HEALTH GUARDIAN PROGRAM |
The Minister of Public Works, Transportation and
Communications
The Minister of the Budget
The Director of Public Works
WHEREAS, the improvement of the health of all Filipinos is a primary concern of Government;
WHEREAS, the public schools system is being mobilized in health improvement, through better health, nutrition and environmental education, supplementary feeding and other related activities;
WHEREAS, the School Health Guardian program has been evolved by the Ministry of Education and Culture as a means to enrich the health education and services program;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby issue the following instructions to strengthen the School Health Guardian Program:
1.
The School Health Guardian Program is hereby
declared a priority program of the national government, with the aim of
educating teachers and school children in the use of medicinal plants
and herbs and simple remedies for common ailments. Its activities shall
be dovetailed with the supplemental school feeding, school orchard,
"Alay-Tanim", population education, and other related programs of the
Ministry of Education and Culture, the Ministry of Health and the
Nutrition Center of the Philippines.
2. Pilots
projects shall be identified throughout the Philippines, consisting
initially of one school per Region, as follows:
a.
Naguilian Central School, Naguilian, La Union
b. Paniki
Elementary School, Bagabag, Nueva Viscaya
c. San Rafael
Elementary School, San Marcelino, Zambales
d. Batangas
South Central School, Batangas City
e. Rodriguez
Elementary School, Pili, Camarines Sur
f. Guimbal
Central Elementary School, Guimbal Iloilo
g. Alicia
Central Elementary School, Alicia, Bohol
h. Cabacungan
Elementary School, Dulag South District Leyte
i. Juan
Bugarin Elementary School, Sindangan North District, Zamboanga del Norte
j. Manolo
Fortich Elementary School, Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon
k. Lamian
Elementary School, Surallan, South Cotabato
l. Awang
Elementary School, Dinaig North District, Maguindanao
m. Parang
Elementary School, Marikina, Rizal
4. A prefabricated schoolbuilding shall be immediately erected in each of the pilot schools mentioned in no. 2 above, to house (a) the school clinic, (b) a combination demonstration center and library, and (c) a school kitchen. The standard Bagong Lipunan type schoolbuilding shall be adapted to suitably house these activities the maximum amount of one hundred thousand pesos (P100,000) being allocated for each schoolbuilding as adapted. These shall be known as the "School Health Guardian Buildings."
5. The annual schoolbuilding program shall provide for at least one School Health Guardian Building per Region, as determined by the Minister of Education and Culture.
6. In line with national emphasis on Mindanao rehabilitation and development, an additional twenty-four (24) Bagong Lipunan School Buildings shall be allocated for Zamboanga City, Cagayan de Oro City, Davao City, and Cotabato City to be used as temporary warehouses in the implementation of Mindanao, by the World Food Program. These shall be converted to regular school rooms or School Health Guardian Buildings when no longer needed as temporary warehouses.
7. The budgetary allocation of the School Health Guardian Program, the "Alay Tanim" Program, Supplementary School Feeding, and other related activities, shall be specifically identified as such in the General Appropriations Bill as Key Budgetary Inclusions, for such time as these programs are considered as being of priority importance.
Done in the City of Manila, this 9th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight.
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