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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 471, September 27, 1994 ]

DECLARING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER OF EVERY YEAR AS SCHOOL HEALTH MONTH

WHEREAS, the state recognizes its constitutional duty to provide for the health, education, and social welfare of the youth to enable them to deal physically, morally, intellectually, and socially in a wholesome and normal manner, and thus transform them into healthy, intelligent, upright and useful citizens and potential community leaders;

WHEREAS, the State shall protect and promote the right to health of the people and instill health consciousness among them;

WHEREAS, good health enables the individual to actualize his/her full potential for more effective learning and productivity;

WHEREAS, the Integrated School Health and Nutrition Program contributes substantially to the attainment of good health and nutrition among the school populace through health and nutrition services and education;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare the month of October of every year as the School Health Month under the auspices of the School Health and Nutrition Center, Department of Education, Culture and Sports.ℒαwρhi৷

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 27th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety four.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) TEOFISTO T. GUINGONA, JR.
Executive secretary

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