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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 949 |
WHEREAS, the Honorable Enrique M. Garcia has been recently appointed Minister of Health;
WHEREAS, the attainment of health for all Filipino is both a means and an end of the overall national development program of the New Society;
WHEREAS, the Ministry of Health is charged with the supervision and coordination of all health and health- related activities within the Philippines;
WHEREAS, these health and health-related activities must be integrated with other activities of the overall national development program of the New Society;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby instruct the Minister of Health and all officials and personnel of the Ministry of Health to:
1.
Design, develop and implement programs which will:
1.1.
Focus on Health Development at the community level particularly in
rural areas by.
a)
Strengthening health care delivery at primary levels and immediate
support systems at secondary levels;
b) Developing
a strong primary health care system in coordination/cooperation with
all the Ministries and agencies engaged in social, political and
economic development;
c) Lowering
the cost of drugs; and
d) Rotation
and increase of medical service personnel
a)
Strengthening and re-orienting existing specific programs in family
planning, nutrition, malaria eradication, schistosomiasis control,
cancer control, and others to conform to the thrust of the peripheral
services;
b) Development
of a plan to eradicate tuberculosis by means of a strong program which
will be integrated with the health development at community levels.
a)
Strengthening their staff functions and capabilities;
b)
Streamlining their programs of activities.
DONE in the City of Manila, this 19th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-nine.
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