WHEREAS, the present National Mental Hospital has been designed and constructed to accommodate properly 3,000 patients while the present hospital population is 10,000 patients; and
WHEREAS, there is an urgent need to relocate, improve and expand the facilities of the National Mental Hospital alongside with countryside development in order that the mental health needs of all the people throughout the country could be attended to promptly and efficiently.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby order and decree:
SECTION 1. Creation.—There is hereby established a health center to be known as the Lungsod Silangan Mental Health Center under the supervision of the Department of Health.
SEC. 2. Organization.—The Center shall be headed by a chief of Hospital assisted by one or more assistant chiefs and such staffs and operating units as may be organized pursuant to law.
SEC. 3. Objectives and Functions.—The Center shall:
SEC. 4. Creation of Regional Mental Health Centers.—
SEC. 5. A mental hospital for the Criminal Insane is hereby created under the supervision of the Secretary of Health.
SEC. 6. Funds and Resources.—
SEC. 7. Project Implementation.—The Project Management Staff of the Department of Health created under Presidential Decree No. 568 is hereby authorized to undertake and supervise the implementation of the projects in coordination with the National Mental Health Hospital authorities.
SEC. 8. The Secretary of Health is hereby authorized to call upon any department, bureau, agency or instrumentality of the Government for such assistance as may be necessary to effectively implement this Decree.
SEC. 9. All laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Decree are hereby repealed, modified or amended accordingly.
SEC. 10. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila, this 11th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight.
(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) JACOBO C. CLAVE Presidential Executive Assistant