(3) Ward Services which shall provide quality care for all admitted patients in the hospital to include ward work, nursing round, doctors round, endorsement, medication, treatment, general grand round, recording/reporting, nursing care, mortality/morbidity conferences and discharges; and (4) Out-Patient Department Services which shall provide ambulatory care services and other hospital-based preventive health care services. Chapter 6 Program Units and Offices SEC. 18. Integrated Maternal and Child Health Care and Nutrition Unit. - The Integrated Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Unit shall formulate plans, policies, programs, standards and techniques relative to maternal and child health; provide consultative training and advisory services to implementing agencies; and conduct studies and research related to health services for mothers and children. to family planning in the context of health and family welfare; provide consultative, training and advisory services to implementing agencies; and conduct studies and research related to family planning as well as nutrition services in the context of primary health care, provide consultative, training and advisory services to implementing agencies; and conduct studies and research related to nutrition. SEC. 19. Environmental, Sanitation and Occupational Health Unit. - The Environmental, Sanitation and Occupational Health Unit shall formulate plans, policies, programs, standards and techniques relative to environmental health and sanitation; provide consultative, training and advisory services to implementing agencies; and conduct studies and research related to environmental health. As well as regulations on occupational standards for industries, manufacturing companies to ensure that establishments and institutions, facilities shall ensure the health and welfare of their workers through healthy conducive safe workplace in consonance with the provisions of “industrial Hygiene” and Occupational Toxicology” of the Code of Sanitation of the Philippines (Presidential Decree 856) and its implementing rules and regulations. SEC. 20. The Dental Health Unit. - shall formulate plans, policies, programs, standards and techniques relative to dental health services; provide consultative, training and advisory services to implementing agencies; and conduct studies and research related to dental services. SEC. 21. Infectious Disease Control Unit. - The Infectious Disease Control Unit shall formulate plans, policies, programs, standards and techniques relative to the control of communicable diseases, specifically on the major causes or mortality and morbidity, such as leprosy, sexually transmitted infections, filariasis tuberculosis, schistosomiasis, soil transmitted diseases, dengue, malaria including emerging diseases like meningocsimia, SARS, Avian Influenza and other infectious diseases ; provide consultative, training and advisory services to implementing agencies; and conduct studies and research related to these other communicable diseases. 105

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