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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1136 - AN
ACT REORGANIZING THE DIVISION OF TUBERCULOSIS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF
HEALTH |
(SUPERSEDED BY EO 258, s. 1958)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
Sec. 2. The Division shall have the following
functions: 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 |