MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 1167, March 2, 1998 ]

DECLARING A STATE OF CALAMITY IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF SIASI, PROVINCE OF SULU

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of Health through the Secretary of National Defense as Chairman of the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC), and by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare a state of calamity in the Municipality of Siasi, Province of Sulu, in view of the malaria outbreak in the said municipality.

All departments and other government agencies concerned are hereby directed to implement and execute relief and rehabilitation work in accordance with existing operational plans, directives and orders issued in connection with calamities.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.1aшphi1

DONE in the City of Manila, this 2nd day of March in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Eight.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) ALEXANDER P. AGUIRRE
Executive Secretary


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