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Republic of the Philippines TOUL 29
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 7
CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

House Bill No. 3068

Introduced by Honorable ALFONSO V. UMALI JR.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

No less than the 1987 Philippine Constitution ensures the
right of every Filipinos to health. As categorically stated in Section
15, Article II thereof, “the State shall protect and promote the right
to health of the people and instill health consciousness among
them.”

This bill seeks to convert the Oriental Mindoro Provincial
Hospital (OMPH) in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro into a Regional
Hospital.

At present, the OMPH operates as a service and training-
oriented tertiary medical facility managed by the Provincial
Government of Oriental Mindoro. It has a 200-bed capacity and
serves as the main referral hospital for patients and medical cases
requiring tertiary specialty medical care from different provincial
government satellite hospitals and Rural Health Units in the
province.

The rapidly-increasing population in the Province of Oriental
Mindoro, not to mention designation of the province as the
Regional Center of MIMAROPA, the need for medical services
proportionately increase. Indispensably, the government health
care service providers should be more in keep with such realities
and the standard of health services they provide have to be at par
globally. Hence, the OMPH, being the catchment hospital catering

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the provinces of Oriental Mindoro, Occidental Mindoro,
Marinduque, and Romblon, shall be upgraded

‘The increase in bed capacity and upgrading of the OMPH into
a Regional Hospital can accommodate more patients and thus
provides better access to quality and affordable health care
services for the people.



Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES

Quezon City, Metro Manila

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

House Bill No. e068

Introduced by Honorable ALFONSO V. UMALI JR.

“AN ACT CONVERTING THE
ORIENTAL MINDORO PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL
IN CALAPAN CITY, ORIENTAL MINDORO
TO A REGIONAL HOSPITAL, TO BE KNOWN AS
ORIENTAL MINDORO REGIONAL HOSPITAL
AND TO INCREASE ITS BED CAPACITY TO THREE HUNDRED
(300) BEDS, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR”

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

SECTION 1. Conversion. The Oriental Mindoro Provincial
Hospital in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro shall be
converted into a regional hospital to be known as “Oriental
Mindoro Regional Hospital (OMRH).” Accordingly, its bed
capacity is hereby increased from two hundred (200) to three
hundred (300) beds.

SECTION 2. Upgrading of Facilities and Equipment. The
existing service facilities, medical equipment and
professional health care services shall likewise be upgraded
to conform with and commensurate to the increase of its bed
capacity as provided under Section 1 of this Act.

SECTION 3. Additional Human Resources. The Department of
Health, in coordination with the Department of Budget and
Management and the Civil Service Commission, shall determine


the additional plantilla positions to be created and filled up in the
OMRH.

SECTION 4. Implementing Rules and Regulations. The
Department of Health shall promulgate the rules and
regulations necessary for the effective implementation of
this Act.

The increase in the bed capacity of the OMRH from two
hundred (200) to three hundred (300) beds shall be
implemented for a period of not more than two (2) years from
the approval of this Act.

SECTION 5. Funding. The amount necessary to carry out
the provisions of this Act shall be included in the General
Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment into
law and thereafter.

SECTION 6. Effectivity. This Act shall take effect fifteen
(15) days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in
two (2) national newspapers of general circulation.

Approved.