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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 215 -
PRESCRIBING ADDITIONAL MEASURES TO IMPROVE THE DELIVERY OF HEALTH
SERVICES DEVOLVED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS
WHEREAS, certain health functions
and responsibilities of the Department of Health have been devolved to
local government units on 31 December 1992 pursuant to Republic Act No.
7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code of 1991;
WHEREAS, the efficient and effective discharge of such devolved health
functions and responsibilities by local government units depends
greatly on the moral and social and economic well-being of their health
workers;
WHEREAS, Section 19 of Republic Act No. 7305, the Magna Carta of Public
Health Workers, stipulates that the salary scales of public health
workers whose salaries are appropriated by local government units shall
not be less than those provided for public health workers of the
National Government;
WHEREAS, the adoption of the fund allotment system, prescribed under
Department of Budget and Management and Commission on Audit Joint
Circular No. 93-2 (Budget Operations Manual for Local Government Units)
issued pursuant to Sec. 354 of the Local Government Code, will not
only expedite devolved hospital financial and procurement operations
but also ensure better accountability in the usage of public funds;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, upon the
recommendation of the Chairman of the Oversight Committee constituted
under Sec. 533 of the Local Government Code, do hereby order and
direct;
Section 1.
“The
salary scales of public health workers devolved to or appointed by
local government units shall follow the same salary scales for health
workers of the National Government under the Revised Compensation and
Position Classification System implemented through this Order No. 164.
Local government units which do
not have adequate or sufficient funds to pay the salary increases
herein authorized shall only partially implement the established rates
uniformly and proportionately for all health worker positions.”
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DONE in the City of Manila,
this 13th day of December in the year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and
Ninety Four.
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