AMENDING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 306, ENTITLED “CONVERTING THE MAJOR FERDINAND E. MARCOS HOSPITAL IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF BAYOMBONG, PROVINCE OF NUEVA VIZCAYA, INTO THE MAJOR FER…

WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 306, dated October 5, 1973,
converted the Major Ferdinand E. Marcos Hospital in the Municipality of
Bayombong, Province of Nueva Vizcaya, into the Major Ferdinand E.
Marcos Veterans’ Regional Hospital;

WHEREAS, in order to give due recognition to the status of
said hospital as a Veterans’ Regional Hospital and to promote the
greater efficiency and administrative flexibility thereof, there is
reason to place it directly under the Department of Health, thereby
removing it from any form of supervision or control of any regional
office of said Department;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution as
Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and
pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, and General
Order No. 1, dated September 22, 1972, as amended, do hereby order and
decree to be part of the laws of the land the following:

SECTION 1. Section 3 of Presidential Decree No. 306 is
hereby amended to read as follows:

“SEC. 3. The Veterans’ Hospital shall be directly under
the administrative supervision and control of the Department of Health
and as such shall not be subject to the supervision and/or control of
any regional office of said Department.

SEC. 2. This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 4th day of January, in the year
of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.