EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES )
First Regular Session )

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Sccording to the National Kidney and Transplant Institute, kidney diseases, especially End
Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), are already the 7” leading cause of death among the

Patients underwent dialysis due to kidney failure in 2016. That's a massive jump from a mere
9.716 cases recorded in 2010—increasing at the rate of 8-18 percent per year.

The cost of medical treatment for kidney disease is Feally exorbitant, beyond the reach of
ordinary patients. Further, most of the equipment and machines needed for dialysis are only

In View of the foregoing, immediate approval of this measure is earnestly requested

RUFUS B. RODRIGUEZ


EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES )
First Regular Session )

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

___Introduced by Representative Rufus B.F

House Bill No. 5215

AN ACT
REQUIRING ALL NATIONAL, REGIONAL, AND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
HOSPITALS TO ESTABLISH, OPERATE AND MAINTAIN A DIALYSIS WARD OR UNIT
AND PROVIDING FREE DIALYSIS TREATMENT TO INDIGENT PATIENTS

8e it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress
assembled:

SECTION 1. Short Title. — This Act shall be known as the “Dialysis Center Act.”

SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. - itis the declared policy of the State to improve the delivery
or health care services to the people and to ensure hospital facilities arc available, affordable
and accessible to the people.

SEC. 3 Definition of Terms. - For purposes of this Act, the following terms shall mean
9) National Government Hospital — shall refer to a hospital operated anv maintained
either partially or wholly by the national govemment or by any department,

division, board or other agency thereof.

») Regional Government Hospital — shall refer to a hospital operated and
Teantained either partially or wholly by the national government on by any
department, division, board or other agency thereof

©) Provincial Goverment Hospital — shall refer to a hospital operated and

9) Indigent patient. ~ shall refer to a patient who have no visible means of income or
whose income is insufficient for family Subsistence, as identified by the
Department of Social Welfare and Development.

SEC. 4. Establishment, Operation and Maintenance of a Dialysis Ward or Unit. - Within
No.2) years from the effectivity of this Act, all national, regional end provincial government
hospitals are hereby required to establish, operate and mamtain’e dialysis ward or unit in
their hospitals. The dialysis ward or unit shall be equipped with complete dialysis machine,
equipment and supplies

covered by Philheaith

SEC. 6. Penalty. — Any hospital chief, administrator or officer-in-charge who fails to comply
with this Act shall be punished with a fine of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Pesos
(250,000.00) but not more than Five Hundred Thousand Pesos (P500,000.00).


SEC. 7. Implementing Rules and Regulations. - The Secretary of the Department of
Health shall promulgate the rules and regulations necessary for the effective implantation of
this Act

SEC. 8. Appropriation. ~ Such amount as may be necessary to implement the provisions of
this Act is hereby authorized to be appropriated from the National Treasury. Thereafter, the
amount necessary for the continuous implementation of this Act shall be included in the
government hospital's annual appropriations. .

‘SEC. 9. Separability. — if any provision or part hereof is held invalid or unconstitutional, the
remainder of the law or the provision not otherwise affected shall remain valid and
subsisting

SEC. 10. Repealing Clause. ~ All laws, decrees, orders, rules and regulations, or part
thereof inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby deemed repealed or modified
accordingly.

SEC. 11. Effectivity. — This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the
Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,