(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.
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