Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Health Events of Public Health Concern Act (Republic Act No. 11332).

This Act provide for policies and prescribing procedures on surveillance and response to notifiable diseases, epidemics, and health events of public health concern, and appropriating funds therefor. The Act consist of 18 Sections.
The Epidemiology Bureau shall regularly update and issue a list of nationally notifiable diseases and health events of public health concern with their corresponding case definitions. The DOH shall issue the official list of institutionalized public health information system, disease surveillance and response systems for mandatory reporting of notifiable diseases and health event of public concern.
To perform their disease surveillance and response funcLions, authorized health personnel from the DOH and its local counterparts have the statutory and regulatory authority to enforce: (l) Establishment of public health information system, disease surveillance and response systems in private and public facilities; (2) Mandatory reporting of notifiable diseases and health events of public health concern; (3) Rapid containment, quarantine and isolation, disease prevention and control measures, and product recall; etc.