It is the mandatory duty of the State to protect and promote the right to health of every Filipino by making quality and adequate health care available and accessible to everybody, especially the poor and disadvantaged. In the fulfillment of this duty, the State shall:
1. Adopt an integrated and comprehensive approach to health development that will make essential goods, health services and other social services available to all the people at affordable cost, giving priority for the needs of the underprivileged sick, elderly, disabled, women and children.
2. Endeavor to provide free medical care to paupers or the poor.
3. Establish and maintain an effective food and drug regulatory system.
4. Undertake appropriate health manpower development and research responsive to the country’s health needs and problems.
5. Establish a special body for disabled persons for their rehabilitation, self-development and self-reliance and their integration to the mainstream of society.
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