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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 1224, May 27, 1998 ]

DECLARING THE LAST WEEK OF MAY 1998 AS THE NATIONAL WEEK OF ACTION FOR WOMENS HEALTH

WHEREAS, since the 5th International Women and Health Meeting in Costa Rica in May 1987, the women NGO community, both locally and internationally, has meaningfully observed May 28 as an International Day of Action for Womens Health;

WHEREAS, last year, May 28 witnessed the launching of a nationwide campaign billed as “Filipino Women Call for Comprehensive Womens Health Care: Our Right to Health, Our Right to Life,” and that this campaign has enthusiastically given birth to and nurtured by womens institution and mass organizations;

WHEREAS, there is a need to create national awareness to the relevant and accessible health care system and programs for Filipino Women;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare the last week of May 1998, as “National Week of Action for Womens Health”.

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 27th day of May, 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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