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SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS a

First Regular Session

House Bill No. 5788

Introduced by REP. RAUL V. DEL MAR

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to increase the bed capacity of Vicente Sotto Memorial
Medical Center (VSMMC) located at B. Rodriguez Street, Cebu City from
(1.200) beds to One Thousand Five

Hundred __(1,500)Beds.

VSMMC is a general tertiary medical center teaching training medical
facility owned by the Philippine Government. It aims to provide health care
services that are available, affordable, accessible and acceptable to all
regardless of social status.

On June 22, 1998 Republic Act No. 8658 principally authored by Rep.
Raul V. Del Mar was enacted increasing the bed capacity of VSMMC from
400 to 800 beds. Subsequently, Republic Act No. 10770 principally
authored again by Rep. Del Mar increasing the bed capacity of VSMMC from
800 to 1200 bed capacity and appropriating funds therefor was enacted on
April 26, 2016, As of today, VSMMC admits more than 1,200 patients per
day and with an average of 700-800 patients daily at the Out Patient
Department (OPD).

Presently, the VSMMC is implementing its new direction with the
development of Specialty and Sub-specialties under the different clinical

departments.


The Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) is the Mega-
Multi Specialty Hospital of the Visayas with various Specialty Centers
catering to Heart - Lung Center, Kidney Transplant Center, Oncology &
Cancer Surgery, Brain Center and Acute Stroke Units, Eye Center,
Pediatric Center, Biomarine Poisoning and Toxicology Centers, Rehab
Center, Orthopedics Center, Dermatology Center, Diabetes Control
Centers, Geriatric Center, Neonatology Center, Trauma Center, Infectious
Disease and Tropical Medicine Centers, Reproductive Health Centers, Burn
‘Treatment Centers, Psychiatry Centers and Medical Tourism Services.

In view of the strategic location, the expanding needs of VSMMC and
the desire to provide an efficient and effective delivery of health services to
the public in Cebu City, Province of Cebu and the rest of the Visayas and
provinces in Mindanao fronting the island of Cebu, the approval of this
measure is earnestly requested.


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

5788

House Bill No.

Introduced by REP. RAUL V. DEL MAR

AN ACT
INCREASING THE BED CAPACITY OF VICENTE SOTTO MEMORIAL
MEDICAL CENTER, LOCATED IN CEBU CITY, FROM ONE THOUSAND
‘TWO HUNDRED (1,200) TO ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED (1,500)
BED CAPACITY, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFORE

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

SECTION 1. The bed capacity of Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical
Center is hereby increased from one thousand two Hundred (1,200) to one
thousand five hundred (1,500) beds.

SEC. 2. 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.

SEC. 3. The Department of Health is directed to implement this Act.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication
in two (2) national newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,