[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 424, March 10, 1951 ]

FURTHER AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBERED TWENTY-FOUR, DATED NOVEMBER TWELVE, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX, AS AMENDED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBERED EIGHTY-SIX, DATED SEPTEMBER THREE, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN œCREATING THE NATIONAL ADVISORY HEALTH COUNCIL 



The second paragraph of Executive Order No. 24, dated November 12, 1946, as amended by Executive Order No. 86 dated September 3, 1947, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

œNow, therefore, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby create a body to be known as the. National Advisory Health Council to study problems of public health and sanitation and to, make such recommendations as it may deem necessary for the improvement of public health and sanitation and the promotion of medical research. The Council shall be composed of the following:

The Secretary of Health

Chairman

The Undersecretary of Health

Vice-Chairman

The Director of Health

Member

The Director of Quarantine

Member

The Director of Public Schools

Member

The Dean, College of Medicine , UP

Member

The Dean, College of Medicine , UST

Member

The Dean, College of Medicine , MCU

Member

The Chairman, Board of Medical Examiners

Member

The Chairman, Board of Dental Examiners

Member

The President, Philippine Medical Association

Member

The President, Philippine Public Health Association

Member

The President, Philippine Federation of Private Medical Practitioners

Member

The President, Philippine Pharmaceutical Association

Member

The President, League of District and City Health Officers

Member

The President, Filipino Nurses Association

Member

The members of the Council shall serve without Compensation and their term shall be co-terminous with their tenure in their regular positions. 

Done in the City of Manila, this 10th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifth.

(SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(SGD.) TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary