SEC. 22. Chronic Disease Control Unit. - The Chronic Disease Control Unit shall formulate plans, policies, programs, standards and techniques relative to the control of noncommunicable diseases; provide consultative, training and advisory services to implementing agencies; and conduct studies and research related to mental illness, cardiovascular-diseases, cancer, other non-communicable diseases. SEC. 23. Hospital Operations, Maintenance and Management Unit. - The Hospital Operations and Management Unit shall formulate and implement plans, programs, policies, standards and techniques related to management improvement and quality control of hospital operations; provide consultative, training and advisory services to field offices in relation to the supervision and management of hospital components; and conduct studies and research related to hospital operations and management. The unit shall also formulate and implement plans, programs, policies, standards and techniques related to assuring the proper maintenance of Department equipment; provide consultative, training and advisory services to implementing agencies in relation to preservation, repair and maintenance of medical and non-medical equipment of the Department; and conduct studies and research related to equipment and facility maintenance. SEC. 24. Regional Unified Planning Management Unit. - This Unit shall formulate and implement plans, policies, programs, standards and techniques related to development and preservation of health infrastructure; health programs assessment and evaluation, provide consultative, training and advisory services to implementing agencies in relation to health program implementation and infrastructure projects to assure economical and efficient implementation; and conduct studies and research related to infrastructure development, utilization and sustainability. SEC. 25. Licensing, Regulation, Research and Development Unit. - This Unit develop and formulate plans, standards and policies for the establishment and accreditation and licensing of hospitals, clinics, allied health facilities, lying in, pharmacies, laboratories; blood banks and entities handling biological products, provide consultative, training and advisory services to public and private laboratories; and conduct studies and research related to laboratory procedures and operations, establish standards that shall be the basis of inspections and licensure procedures of the Department's field offices; and provide consultative, training and advisory services to field offices on the conduct of licensing and regulatory functions over hospitals, clinics and other health facilities. SEC. 26. Food and Drugs Regulation Unit. - This Unit shall act as the policy formulation and sector monitoring arm of the Secretary on matters pertaining to foods, drugs, traditional medicines, cosmetics and household products containing hazardous substances, and the formulation of rules, regulations and standards as provided for in Republic Act 3720 (1963), as amended by Executive Order No. 175, s. 1987, and other pertinent laws for their proper enforcement; prescribe general standards and guidelines with respect to the veracity of nutritional and medicinal claims in the advertisement of food, drugs and cosmetics in the various media, to monitor such advertisements; advise the Department's field offices to call upon any erring manufacturer, distributor, or advertiser to desist from such inaccurate or misleading nutritional or medicinal claims in their advertising; should such manufacturer, distributor, or advertiser refuse or fail to obey the desistance order issued by the Department through the recommendation of this unit he/she shall be subject to the applicable penalties as may be 106