Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS 
 Third Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO.______________ 
Introduced by Representative PRINCESS RIHAN MANGUDADATU SAKALURAN 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Section 11, Article XIII of the Philippine constitution states: 
“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.” 
Also, the Child and Youth Welfare Code provides that: 
 “Declaration of Policy. - The Child is one of the most important 
assets of the nation. Every effort should be exerted to promote his 
welfare and enhance his opportunities for a useful and happy life 
x x x.” 
Towards this end, the undersigned proposed this bill to create a specialty hospital 
primarily to benefit and address the concerns of the all the children in the province of Sultan 
Kudarat and the entire Region XII as well to enhance pediatric care, research, training of 
medical and technical personnel for the prevention and treatment of children’s diseases. 
The goal it to end preventable child deaths and development of children in the early 
decades of their life in all aspects of children’s growth and development towards healthy 
adult.  
As Nelson Mandela once said “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s 
soul than the way in which it treats its children.”   
The passage of this bill is therefore earnestly sought. 
PRINCESS RIHAN MANGUDADATU SAKALURAN 
Representative 
1st District, Sultan Kudarat 
October 29, 2021
10:11 pm
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Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS 
Third Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. _______________ 
Introduced by REP. PRINCESS RIHAN MANGUDADATU SAKALURAN 
AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TWO HUNDRED (200) BED CAPACITY SULTAN 
KUDARAT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INSIDE THE CAPITOL COMPLEX, 
BARANGAY KALAWAG II, MUNICIPALITY OF ISULAN IN THE PROVINCE OF 
SULTAN KUDARAT, DEFINING ITS FUNCTIONS, RESPONSIBILITIES, 
POWERS AND AUTHORITY, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR 
Section 1.  There shall be established, under the supervision of the 
Department of Health, a two hundred (200) bed capacity children’s hospital in 
the province of Sultan Kudarat to be known as SULTAN KUDARAT CHILDREN’S 
HOSPITAL to be built inside the Capitol Complex, Kalawag II, Isulan, Sultan 
Kudarat.   
Section 2. All pediatric patients requiring hospitalization and/or special 
medical services coming from the different provinces and cities of Region 12, who 
cannot be given such adequate services in their local hospitals, shall be referred 
by the latter to, and attended by, the Hospital.  
Section 3.  The Department of Health, in consultation and coordination 
with the local government officials concerned, shall promulgate the rules and 
regulations necessary for the effective implementation of this Act. 
Section 4. Indigents shall not be required to pay the cost of hospitalization 
and/or medical services rendered: provided, that a certificate of indigency issued 
by the barangay captain at his place of residence is submitted. Patients who can 
afford to pay as determined by the Hospital authority shall be required to pay 
the cost of hospitalization and/or medical treatment extended to them. 
Section 5. The Property of the Sultan Kudarat Children’s Hospital shall consist 
of such real, personal, mixed and other type of property, now owned or reserved 
for, or may hereafter be given, donated, acquired, transferred or conveyed to, the 
Sultan Kudarat Children’s Hospital by the Philippine Government, its branches 
and instrumentalities, by any foreign government, as well as by trust, 
foundations, corporations, or persons, alien or domestic, in order to carry out its 
purposes and objectives as set forth herein. 
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Section 5. The purposes and objectives of the Sultan Kudarat Children’s 
Hospital are: 
(a)
To construct, establish, operate and maintain facilities for the
children's welfare, including a specialized hospital for children;
(b) To promote, encourage and engage in scientific research on the
prevention of pediatric diseases and the care and/or treatment of
pediatric patients and related activities, including sponsorship and
conduct 
of 
relevant 
congresses, 
conventions, 
seminars, 
and
conferences;
(c)
To stimulate and/or underwrite scientific researches on biological,
demographic, social, economic eugenic, physiological aspects of
pediatric disorders and abnormalities and their control; and gather,
compile, and publish the findings of such researches for public
dissemination;
(d) To facilitate and encourage the dissemination and exchange of ideas
and information on the prevention, treatment and control of pediatric
diseases; to arouse, enhance and develop public interest in children,
general health and physical fitness, especially on the promotion of
health and rehabilitation, and other relevant or related fields;
(e)
To encourage and/or undertake the training of physicians, nurses,
medical technicians, health officers and social workers on the
practical and scientific conduct and implementation of pediatric
services;
(f)
To extend pediatric services to the general public, to help prevent,
relieve or alleviate the afflictions and maladies of children and youth
specially the poor and less fortunate in life, without regard to race,
creed, color or political belief.
Section 6. - The Regional Director upon prior authority of the Secretary 
of Health may negotiate and/or accept donations or grants from any person, 
natural or juridical, domestic or foreign, for the use of the Hospital for the 
improvement of or addition to its facilities geared at modernization. 
Section 7.     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 8.    This Act shall take effect upon its approval.