HOUSE WF REPRESENTATIVES

Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI
Quezon City

RECTAN A

Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session

284

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by Honorable Luisa Lioren Cuaresma

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to increase the bed capacity of Veterans Regional Hospital
in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya from two hundred (200) to five hundred (500)
beds, upgrade its services, facilities and professional health care, authorize

the increase of its medical pers
‘Trauma and Medical Center,

nel and change its name to Region Ii

Section 11, Article XIII of the 1987 Constitution which deals with Social

Justice and Human Rights, provides:

“SEC. Il. 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.”

The Veterans Regional Hospital in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya is a 200-
bed capacity Level II tertiary hospital retained by the Department of Health. It

is duly accredited by the Philippine Health I
a trauma center, comprehensive emergency

surance Corporation and serves as

maternal center, obstetrical and

neonatal care center and complementary and alternative health care training

center,

‘The Veterans Regional Hospital further serv
hospital in the field of pathology, obstetrics and g

medicine, family and community medicine,

as a training and teaching
ynecology, pediatrics, internal
It is considered a referral and



affiliating hospital of the Province of Nueva Vizcaya and its neighboring
provinces including Quirino, Isabela, Nueva Ecija and the provinces from the
Cordillera Administrative Region.

Due to the influx of patients from the provinces comprising Region Il,
the Veterans Regional Hospital is always overcrowded. The hospital provides
its medical services to an average of 280 to 300 patients per day, Some of the
Patients insist on staying in the hospital despite the unavailability of beds and
would rather settle in the corridors and floors of the hospital wards. Increasing
the bed capacity of Veterans Regional Hospital from 200 to 500 beds and
upgrading its services, facilities and professional health care will greatly benefit
and better address the health needs of the people of Nueva Vizcaya and its
neighboring provinces.

There is also a need to change the name of Veterans Regional
Hospital to Region II Trauma and Medical Center for the simple reason that it
is a misnomer since the hospital caters not only to the veterans but to the
general public from the region. Naming it as Region II Trauma and Medical
Center is in accordance with the hospital’s designation by the Department of
Health as the only trauma center in Region LI. Changing its name will also
correct the impression of the public that the said hospital is an extension
or branch of the Veterans Medical Center located in Quezon City, Metro
Manila.

In view of the foregoing, approval of this bill is earnestly sought.


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session

4
HOUSE BILL NO. ee 49

Introduced by Honorable Luisa Lloren Cuaresma

AN ACT
INCREASING THE BED CAPACITY OF VETERANS REGIONAL
HOSPITAL IN BAYOMBONG, NUEVA VIZCAYA FROM TWO
HUNDRED (200) TO FIVE HUNDRED (500), UPGRADING ITS
SERVICES, FACILITIES AND PROFESSIONAL HEALTH CARE,
AUTHORIZING THE INCREASE OF ITS MEDICAL PERSONNEL,
CHANGING ITS NAME TO REGION Il TRAUMA AND MEDICAL
CENTER, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represehtatives of the Philippines in °
Congress assembled: ?

SECTION 1. The authorized bed capacity of the Veterans Regional
Hospital in the Municipality of Bayombong, Province of Nueva Vizcaya is
hereby increased from two hundred (200) to five hundred (500) beds.

SEC. 2 The Veterans Regional Hospital shall now be known as the
Region II Trauma and Medical Center.

SEC.3. The existing facilities and professional health care services
of the Region II Trauma and Medical Center are hereby upgraded to conform
and be commensurate to the increase in its authorized bed capacity as provided

for in Section 1 hereof.


SEC. 4. The existing workforce of the Region II Trauma and Medical
Center shall also be correspondingly increased. The Department of Health
shall, in coordination with the Department of Budget and Management and
Civil Service Commission, and after consultation with the Region II Trauma
and Medical Center, determine the additional plantilla positions to be created
and filled up.

SEC. 5. ‘The increase in bed capacity of the Region II Trauma and
Medical Center from two hundred (200) to five hundred (500) beds shall be
implemented for a period of not more than one (1) year from the approval of
this Act.

SEC. 6. The Secretary of Health shall immediately include in the
Department’s program the implementation of this Act, the funding of which
shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

SEC.7. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its
publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,