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

Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session

RECISTRATION UNIT
1846 BILLS ANO INDEX SERVICE

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by Hon. Frederick F. Abueg

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill was filed in the Sixteenth Congress as House Bill No. 03430. It has
been approved in the House of Representatives for three readings per House
Committee Report No.: 00708. Consequently, transmitted to the Senate of the
Philippines on May 28, 2015 and received by the Senate on the same date.

The proposed bill seeks to upgrade the Narra Municipal Hospital in the
Municipality of Narra, Province of Palawan, from ten (10) bed capacity to one
hundred (100) bed capacity, to be known as the Governor Alfredo M. Abueg, Sr.
Memorial Hospital, and appropriating funds therefor.

The Narra Municipal Hospital was established under Republic Act 6917 in
1990 with a ten-bed capacity to provide medical services to the people of Narra and its
neighboring municipalities. Narra is the second largest municipality in terms of land
area and population in the province. It has a population of 65,264 people as of the
2010 census. Narra is also the center for agricultural trade in Southern Palawan. The
municipality continuously attracts migrant families from more depressed areas of the
country to settle therein.

‘The current ten-bed municipal hospital in Narra is usually filled with confined
patients catered by extremely limited equipment facilities and medical services. There
are no provisions/facilities for serious medical condition, so the only recourse for
patients is to travel for two hours to Puerto Princesa City where better hospital
facilities are available.

Given the town’s continued progress and increase in population, it needs
critical improvement in its hospital services and health facilities. The proposed
upgrade of the Narra Municipal Hospital into a Tertiary Hospital with a 100-bed
capacity will significantly improve medical services to ensure public health and save
lives in case of life-threatening diseases.

As a tribute to the former Governor of Palawan, the late Hon. Alfredo M.
Abueg, Sr. who is deeply remembered as a sincere and dedicated public servant, as


well as the father of land settlement which later became the Municipality of Narva, it
is likewise proposed that the hospital be named in his honor.

In view of the foregoing, the immediate approval of this bill is eamestly
requested.

FREDERICK F. ABUHG
Representative, 2\" District of Palawan


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

Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 1846

Introduced by Hon. Frederick F. Abueg

AN ACT
UPGRADING THE NARRA MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL IN THE
MUNICIPALITY OF NARRA, PROVINCE OF PALAWAN, INTO ONE
HUNDRED-BED CAPACITY TO BE KNOWN AS THE GOVERNOR
ALFREDO M. ABUEG, SR. MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND APPROPRIATING
FUNDS THEREFOR

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

SECTION 1. The Narra Municipal Hospital in the in the Municipality
of Narra, Province of Palawan, shall be upgraded into a one hundred-bed
capacity hospital to be known as the Governor Alfredo M. Abueg, Sr. Memorial
Hospital.

SEC. 2. The existing service facilities and professional healthcare
services of the Narra Municipal Hospital are hereby upgraded to conform with
and be commensurate to the bed capacity increase as provided for in Section 1

hereof.


SEC. 3. All personnel, records, assets and properties, including
buildings, sites, and improvements thereof, obligations, funds _ and
appropriations of the Narra Municipal Hospital are hereby transferred to the
Governor Alfredo M. Abueg, Sr. Memorial Hospital.

SEC. 4. The funds necessary for the continued operation and
maintenance of the Governor Alfredo M. Abueg, Sr. Memorial Hospital shall
be included in the General Appropriations Act of the year following its
enactment into law and thereafter.

SEC. 5. The Secretary of the Department of Health shall issue such rules
and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.

SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after publication in

the Official Gazette or in two (2) national newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,