EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 86 - AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 24, DATED NOVEMBER 12, 1946, ENTITLED “CREATING THE NATIONAL ADVISORY HEALTH COUNCIL.”

The second paragraph of Executive Order No. 24, dated November 12, 1946, entitled “Creating the National Advisory Health Council” is hereby amended to read as follows:

“NOW, THEREFORE, I, Manuel Roxas, President of the Philippines, by 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 and Public Welfare Chairman

Director, Bureau of Quarantine Service Member

Chairman, Board of Medical Examiners Member

President, Philippine Medical Association Member

Dean, College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Member

Dean, College of Medicine, University of Santo Tomas Member

Dr. Florentino Herrera Member

Dr. Pedro Velasco Member

Dr. Lorenzo Macaisa Member

Dr. Antonio Fernando Member

Dr. Guillermo Rustia Member

Dr. Agustin Liboro Member

Dr. Fermin Caram Member

Dr. Miguel Cañizares Member

The members of the Council, except the ex-officio members whose term shall be co-terminus with their tenure in their regular positions, shall serve without compensation for a period of one year.”

Done at the City of Manila, this 3rd day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the second.

(Sgd.) MANUEL ROXAS President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) EMILIO ABELLO Chief of the Executive Office