develop policies and provide technical guidance to academic institutions and
administrators to:
a.) Promote and facilitate integration of age appropriate and gender sensitive key
messages on cancer risk factors, early warning signs and symptoms of adult cancer
and childhood lifestyles and healthy diets in their curriculum, health and wellness
programs, and co-curricular activities;
b.) Undertake mainstreaming of practical supportive care and psychosocial support
programs for people living with cancer, cancer survivors, and their family members,
especially those who act as carers for cancer patients; and
c.) Adopt initiatives that minimize or eliminate stigma and discrimination in schools,
colleges, and universities that are experienced by people with cancer, cancer survivors
and their families.
SECTION 18. Health Education and Promotion in the Workplace. – The Department of
Labor and Employment (DOLE), Civil Service Commission, and Technical Education
and Skills Development Authority, in coordination with the DOH, shall develop policies
and provide technical guidance to employers, employees associations, and unions to:
a.) Promote and facilitate integration of gender sensitive key messages on cancer risk
factors, early warning signs and symptoms of adult cancer and childhood cancer,
cancer prevention and control, adoption of healthy lifestyles and healthy diets, in their
communication initiatives, health and wellness programs, and employee development
programs;
b.) Undertake mainstreaming of practical supportive care and psychosocial support
programs for people living with cancer, cancer survivors, and their family members;
c.) Integrate appropriate cancer services in their health services and clinics; and
d.) Develop programs, initiatives or mechanisms that shall minimize or eliminate stigma
and discrimination in the workplace that is experienced by people living with cancer,
cancer survivors, and their families.
SECTION 19. Health Education and Promotion in Communities. – The Department of
the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and LGUs, in collaboration with the DOH
central and regional offices, local cancer focused patient support organizations and
cancer focused professional societies, shall lead the health education and promotion
campaign in local communities, including out-of-school youth. The DILG, in coordination
with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), shall conduct and
promote age appropriate and gender sensitive cancer-focused health education.
ARTICLE V
AFFORDABLE CANCER CARE AND TREATMENT
SECTION 20. Establishment of Cancer Assistance Fund. There is hereby established a
Cancer Assistance Fund to support the cancer medicine and treatment assistance
program. The DOH shall manage Fund in accordance with existing budgeting,
accounting and auditing rules and regulations and shall make a quarterly report to the
Office of the President and Congress on the disbursement of the Fund.
The DOH may solicit and receive donations which shall form part of the Fund and such
donations shall be exempt from income and or donor’s tax and all other taxes, fees and
charges imposed by the government. Likewise, fund raising activities may be conducted
by the Council and the proceeds of which shall accrue to the Fund and shall be exempt
from any and all taxes.
Receipts from donations, whether in cash or in kind, shall be accounted for in the books
of the done government agency in accordance with accounting and auditing rules and
regulations. The receipts from cash donations and proceeds from sale of donated
commodities shall be deposited with the National Treasury and recorded as a special
account in the General Fund and shall be available to the implementing agency
concerned through a special budget pursuant to Section 35, Chapter 5, Book VI of
Executive Order No. 292. The cash value of the donations shall be deemed
automatically appropriated for the purpose specified by the donor. Donations with a
term not exceeding one (1) year shall be treated as trust receipts.
The donee-agency concerned shall submit the quarterly reports of all donations
received, whether in cash or in kind, and expenditures or disbursements thereon with
electronic signature to the DBM, through the Unified Reporting System, and to the
Speaker of the House of the Representatives, the President of the Senate of the
Philippines, the House Committee on Appropriations, the Senate Committee on Finance
and the Commission on Audit, by posting such reports on the donee-agency concerned
websites for a period of three (3) years. The head of the donee-agency concerned shall