Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
Second Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No. 7959

Introduced by Representative ANTONIO ‘TONYPET’ T, ALBANO.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Philippine Constitution provides that “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 care to paupers.” (Article XIII,
Section 11).

This bill secks to establish a one hundred (100)-bed hospital in Barangay Dimapula,
Divilacan, Province of Isabela to be known as the Divilacan-Milagros Albano District
Satellite Hospital.

The Municipality of Divilacan is a second (2nd) class municipality in the province of
Isabela. It is one of the four (4) coastal towns in the province and is accessible via sea and air.
The only health facility in the municipality is the rural health unit (RHU) that caters to five
thousand six hundred eighty-seven (5,687) people. The nearest hospital in the area is located
in Palanan and takes three (3) hours travel by sea. There is a need to establish a hospital in
Divilacan in order to make medical services available, accessible and affordable to the
residents. The hospital will cater to the health needs of the residents in the municipalities of
Divilacan and its neighboring town of Maconacon.

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

Cae a

ANTONIO ‘TONYPET? T. ALBANO


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
Second Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No. _7550

Introduced by Representative ANTONIO “TONYPET” T. ALBANO.

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING A ONE HUNDRED (100)-BED DISTRICT SATELLITE HOSPITAL
OF THE MILAGROS ALBANO DISTRICT HOSPITAL IN BARANGAY
DIMAPULA, DIVILACAN, PROVINCE OF ISABELA TO BE KNOWN AS THE
DIVILACAN-MILAGROS ALBANO DISTRICT SATELLITE HOSPITALANDFOR
TOHER PURPOSES

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

Section 1. There shall be established a one hundred (100) bed capacity hospital in
Barangay Dimapula, Divilacan, Province of Isabela, in accordance with the standards of the
Department of Health to be known as

Section 2. The Secretary of Health shall promulgate the rules and regulations
necessary to carry out the purposed of this Act within sixty (60) days from effectivity.

Section 3. The Secretary of Health shall immediately include in the Department’s
programs the implementation of this Act, the funding of which shall be charged against the
succeeding year’s appropriation of the DOH and thereafter, such sums as may be necessary
for its continued operations shall be included in the nnual General Appropriations Act.

Section 4. All laws, executive orders, decrees, issuances, rules and regulations or
parts thereof inconsistent with the provisions of this Cat are hereby repealed and modified
accordingly.

Section 5. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in two (2)
newspaper of general circulation.

Approved.