Republic of the Philippines

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

Seventeenth Congress
rst Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 5324 "

Introduced by Representative Karlo Alexei B. Nograles and
Representative Jericho Jonas B, Nograles

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to increase the bed capacity of Southern Philippines
Medical Center (SPMC) in Davao City from one thousand two hundred (1,200)
to one thousand five hundred (1,500) beds, upgrade i ional health care
services, facilities and authorize the increase of its medical personnel.

Section 1, Article XIII of the 1987 Constitution which deals with Social
Justice and Human Rights, provides:

“SEC. 11. The State shall adopt an integrated and
comprehensive approach to health development which
shall endeavor to make essential goods, health and
other social services available to all the people at
affordable cost. There shall be priority for the needs of
the underprivileged sick, elderly, disabled, women and
children. The State shall endeavor to provide free
medical and care to paupers.”

The SPMC is a DOH-retained, level 3, eral and trauma
hospital that has, at present, an authorized bed capacity of one thousa
hundred (1,200) with bed occupancy rate of 136.22% and 139.40% in 2015 and
2016 respectively. As a government hospital with good medical facilities.
equipment and instruments, it has become the primary choice of patients, which
are mostly indigents, underprivileged and marginalized. SPMC is situated in a
strategic part of Mindanao and as such, its patients are coming from nearly all
parts of Mindanao.



Due to influx of patients, the bed capacity of SPMC has once been
increased from six hundred (600) to one thousand two hundred (1,200) beds in
2009 by virtue of Republic Act No, 9792. Since 2009, the population of
Mindanao has substantially increased and keeps on growing. Thus, there is a
need to, once again, increase the SPMC’s authorized bed capacity as well as its
medical personnel and other manpower complement, service facilities,
equipment and instruments. Total admissions reported by SPMC in 2015 and
2016 are 66,463 and 75,004 patients, respectively.

Currently, SPMC is actually operating at one thousand four hundred fifly-
three (1,453) beds but the same is still not enough to accommodate the influx of
patients. In addition, SPMC suffers from the lack of medical personnel and
other manpower complement which affects, in one way or another, the quality
of care it provides. SPMC has, at present, three (3) new buildings yet to be
occupied which can accommodate a total of three hundred eight (308) beds.

Though SPMC has three (3) new buildings which can accommodate
additional three hundred (300) beds, it is helpless and cannot institute the same
for lack of authority. Further, additional beds require additional medical
personnel, facilities and equipment. With the proposed upgrade, SPMC can
better address the health needs of the people of Davao and other parts of
Mindanao.

In view of the foregoing, approval of this bill is earnestly sought.

KARLO ALEXEI B. NOGRALES JERICH! SWS\BONOGRALES:


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Republic of the Philippines

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. _ 5824

Introduced by Representative Karlo Alexei B, Nograles and
Representative Jericho Jonas B. Nograles

AN ACT

MEDICAL CENTER IN DAVAO CITY FROM ONE THOUSAND TWO
HUNDRED (1,200) TO ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED (1,500) BEDS,

UPGRAD| IONAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES AND
FACILI 3 THE INCREASE OF ITS MEDICAL
PERSONNEL AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Congress assembled.

SECTION 1. The authorized bed capacity of the Southern Philippines
Medical Center in Davao City is hereby increased from One thousand two hundred
(1,200) to One thousand five hundred (1,500) beds.

SEC. 2. The existing professional health care services and facilities of
the Southern Philippines Medical Center are hereby upgraded to conform and be
commensurate to the increase in its authorized bed capacity as provided for in

Section 1 hereof.


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SEC.3. The existing workforce of the Southern Philippines Medical
Center shall also be correspondingly increased. The Department of Health shall, in
coordination with the Department of Budget and Management and Civil Service
Commission, and after consultation with the Southern Philippines Medical Center,
determine the additional plantilla positions to be created and filled up.

SEC. 4. The increase in bed capacity of the Southern Philippines
Medical Center from One thousand two hundred (1,200) to One thousand five
hundred (1,500) beds shall be implemented for a period of not more than two (2)
years from the approval of this Act.

SEC. 5. The Secretary of Health shall immediately include in the
Department’s program the implementation of this Act, the funding of which shall
be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication
in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,