Executive Order No. 215 (1994) — WHEREAS, the adoption of the fund allotment system, prescribed under Department of Budget and Management and Commission on Audit Joint Circular No. 93-2 (Budget Operations Manual for Local Government Units) issued pursuant to Section 354 of the Local Government Code, will not only expedite devolved hospital financial and procurement operations but also ensure better accountability in the usage of public funds;

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Executive Order No. 215 (1994)

WHEREAS, the adoption of the fund allotment system, prescribed under Department of Budget and Management and Commission on Audit Joint Circular No. 93-2 (Budget Operations Manual for Local Government Units) issued pursuant to Section 354 of the Local Government Code, will not only expedite devolved hospital financial and procurement operations but also ensure better accountability in the usage of public funds;

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Sec. 1 · Section 5(c) of Executive Order No Sec. 2 Sec. 3 Sec. 4 Sec. 5 Sec. 6 · This Order shall take effect immediately

Sec. 1

Section 5(c) of Executive Order No

Sec. 1. Section 5(c) of Executive Order No. 164 dated 8 March 1994 shall be deemed amended insofar as the devolved public health workers are concerned to read as follows:

"The salary scales of public health workers devolved to or appointed by local government units shall follow the same salary scales for health workers of the National Government under the Revised Compensation and Position Classification System implemented through this Order No. 164.

Local government units which do not have adequate or sufficient funds to pay the salary increases herein authorized shall only partially implement the established rates uniformly and proportionately for all health worker positions."

Sec. 2

Sec. 2. Local government units shall prepare, or revise if they have already prepared, their 1995 annual budgets to give the highest priority to the funding requirements of their devolved health responsibilities, inclusive of the benefits guaranteed by law for their health workers, devolved or otherwise.

Sec. 3

Sec. 3. Provincial governments shall pass the necessary ordinances to implement the following: (a) expansion of the coverage of their fund allotment system, as prescribed under Joint Circular No. 93-2 of the Department of Budget and Management and the Commission on Audit, to include their devolved hospitals; and (b) rationalization of the usage and deployment of their devolved hospitals and other health facilities, which may include consolidation or merger, privatization and inter-local joint financing.

Sec. 4

Sec. 4. The Secretary of Health shall extend the necessary technical and financial assistance to the local government units in the exercise of their devolved health functions and responsibilities.

Sec. 5

Sec. 5. The rules and regulations to implement this Order shall be jointly issued by the Secretaries of Health, Interior and Local Government, and Budget and Management.

Sec. 6

This Order shall take effect immediately

Sec. 6. This Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 13th day of December in the year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Four.