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

Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL no. 3930

Introduced by : Cong. Manvel T. Sagarbaria

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The bill seeks to provide for the establishment of a drug rehabilitation
center in the Municipality of Amian, Province of Negros Oriental,

The 2015 National Household Survey of the Dangerous Drugs Board
showed that there are 1.8 million drugs users in the country. With the
unrelenting campaign of the current administration to weed out his country
of drug traffickers, thousands of self-confessed drug users also surrendered
‘and reached out to get proper medical assistance. The Philippine National
Police last September 6, 2016 reported an alarming statistics of 687.953 self-
confessed users and pushers.

With the influx of the overwhelming number of surrenderees, the
government was left with merely booking and profiling them. Those who
sought help from the goverment were asked to sign an agreement that they
will no longer be involved in drugs and were sent home because they cannot
be accommodated by existing rehabilitation centers. There are a total of
forty one (41) accredited residential rehabilitation centers nationwide with
only six (6) centers in the National Capital Region and none for the Negros
Island Region. This emerging problem if left unchecked could later undermine
the government's anti-drug policy.

The drug affectation does not only include the victim but their families,
friends and communities. Lest we forget that aside from the effect of drugs on
the victim, families are the most affected by the drug menace. Broken
families, strained relationships, wasted resources and drug related crimes are
some of the effects of drug abuse.

Negros Oriental has its share of drug related problems. Surrenderees
must be given ample treatment in order to re-integrate them into society as
productive citizens. To address this growing concem, the establishment of a
rehabilitation center in the Province of Negros Oriental is in order.

In view of the foregoing, early passage of this bill is earnestly requested.

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

Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session

3930

HOUSE BILLNO. ~~

Introduced by : Cong. Manvel T. Sagarbarria

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A DRUG REHABILITATION CENTER IN THE
MUNICIPALITY OF AMLAN, PROVINCE OF NEGROS ORIENTAL, TO BE
KNOWN AS THE NEGROS ORIENTAL REHABILITATION CENTER AND
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

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

SECTION 1. Creation. — There shall be established a drug
rehabilitation center in the Municipality of Amlan, Province of Negros
Oriental, fo be known as the Negros Oriental Rehabilitation Center that
shall be responsible for ihe treatment and rehabilitation of drug
dependents within the Province of Negros Oriental.

SECTION 2. Objectives and Functions. - The Center shall have the
following objectives and functions:

a) Provide care, treatment and accommodation to persons
found to be drug dependents;

b) Bring a drug dependent to a state of being physically,
psychologically and socially capable of coping with problems
common to peer groups;

¢) Facilitate and encourage the dissemination and exchange of
ideas and information on the prevention, care, treatment and
control of drug addiction;

d) Provide after-care, follow-up and social reintegration services
to enable a drug depended to adjust to family and
community life after release:

e) Encourage the formation of organizations and associations
composed of parents, guardians and immediate relatives of
drug dependents in order to raise awareness and enhance
their participation in the care, treatment and rehabilitation of
their relatives or wards:


f) Undertake continuous training of physicians, nurses, health
officers and social workers on the practical and scientific
methods of prevention, care treatment and rehabilitation of
persons found to be drug dependents; and

g) Strengthen the spiritual and emotional make-up of an
individual drug dependent by conducting regular guidance
and counseling sessions as welll as interdenominational church
services.

SECTION 3. Site of the Center. — The Center shall be established in
the Municipality of Amlan in the Province of Negros Oriental.

SECTION 4. Organization. - The Center shall be headed by a
Director, to be assisted by two (2) Deputy Directors, who shall be
appointed by the Secretary of Health and vested with powers
generally exercised by the Chief and Assistant Chiefs of a government
hospital.

SECTION 5. Personnel and staff. — The Director shall appoint such
other personnel and staff as may be necessary for the effective
operation of the Center subject o existing laws, rules and regulations.

SECTION 6. Five Year Development Plan. - The Center, through its
Director is authorized to formulate and implement a Development plan
in the fulfilment of the following:

) Establish additional building facilities equipped with new and
modern equipment to serve and cater to drug dependents
from the Province of Negros Oriental;

b) Inifiate plans for the development of income generating
resources to provide charity service:

¢) Provide pharmacy services, dispensaries and health stations;
and

d) Provide on the job training and other educational facilities for
intems and graduate and undergraduate students of
medicine.

SECTION 7. Government Assistance fo the Center. — The
Secretary of Health is hereby authorized to call upon any department,
bureau, agency or instrumentality of the govemment for such
assistance as may be necessary to effectively implement this Act.

SECTION 8. Rules and Regulations. — The Secretary of Health, in
coordination with the Dangerous Drugs Board and the Department of
Social Welfare and Development is hereby authorized to promulgate
such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the effective
implementation of the provisions of this Act.


SECTION 9. Appropriations. — The amount necessary for the
implementation for the implementation of this Act shall be charged
against the current appropriations for the Department of Health.
Thereafter, such amount as may be necessary for the continued
operation of the Negros Oriental Rehabilitation Center shall be
included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

SECTION 10. Separability Clause. - 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.

SECTION 11. Repealing Clause. — All laws, presidential decrees or
issuances, executive orders, letters of instruction, administrative orders,
rules and regulations contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of
this Act are hereby repealed, modified or amended accordingly.

SECTION 12. Effectivity. — This Act shall take effect fifteen (15)
days after its complete publication in at least two (2) newspapers of
general circulation.

Approved.