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Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
Second Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 7471

Introduced by the Honorable ABRAHAM N. TOLENTINO

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The 8" District of Cavite is composed of the City of Tagaytay and the
Municipalities of Alfonso, General Emilio Aguinaldo, Magallanes, Maragondon, Mendez,
Naic, and Ternate. Based on the 2015 Census, it has a population of 371,827. Despite
its large population, there is still no district hospital in the 8" District of Cavite and its
neighboring districts.

The Constitution declared that the State shall adopt an integrated and
comprehensive approach to health development and shall endeavor to make essential
goods, health, and other social services available to all.

During the January 2020 Taal Volcano Eruption and currently, the COVID-19
Pandemic, the need for a large medical facility in the 8" District of Cavite became
imminent. A lot of people from the 8" District of Cavite and nearby areas needed health
and medical attention. It should be highlighted that evacuees from the January 2020
Taal Volcano Eruption and persons under investigation because of COVID-19 were
brought to Tagaytay City.

As such, this representation is proposing for the immediate passage of a law
creating a district hospital to be located in Tagaytay City, and to be known as the Isaac
Tolentino Memorial District Hospital (ITMDH). The district hospital is named after former
Mayor Isaac Tolentino, the longest uninterrupted local chief executive of Tagaytay City
for 27 years. Part of Mayor Isaac Tolentino's vision and legacy is making the city open
and available for all. The creation of the ITMDH is in furtherance of this vision, and in
consonance with the current direction of the city to be the urban hub in the 8 District
of Cavite.

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The creation of the ITMDH is necessary to cater with the need for hospital beds
in the 8" District of Cavite. Based on the recommendations of the Department of Health
(DOH) and World Health Organization (WHO), there should be at least one (1) hospital
bed for every one thousand (1,000) population. Though there are already private and
public hospitals, the criteria set by the DOH and WHO for hospital beds are far from
being met in the 8" District of Cavite.

The ITMDH will be a 250-bed general hospital and will be located in a lot
donated by the government of the City of Tagaytay. The ITMDH will be very accessible
to people of the 8"" District of Cavite because the City of Tagaytay is the business hub in
the 8" District.

Aside from being a general hospital, the ITMDH shall also be used to train
medical and health volunteers, who will be tapped during calamities, disasters,
pandemics, or other catastrophic occurrences.

Approval of the bill is earnestly sought.


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
Second Regular Session

House sino, 7472

Introduced by the Honorable ABRAHAM N. TOLENTINO

AN ACT CREATING THE ISAAC TOLENTINO MEMORIAL DISTRICT HOSPITAL
IN THE 8'" DISTRICT OF CAVITE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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

SECTION. 1. Short Title. — This Act shall be known as the “The Isaac Tolentino
Memorial District Hospital Act.”

SECTION 2. Creation of the Isaac Tolentino Memorial District Hospital. — The “Isaac
Tolentino Memorial District Hospital or the ITMDH” is hereby created. The ITMDH shall
be located in City of Tagaytay, in a land donated by the local government unit.

SECTION 3. Declaration of Purposes. - The primary purpose of ITMDH shall be to
have a world-class and updated general hospital that will give in-patient and out-patient
medical care, primarily for residents of the 8" District of Cavite, and secondarily to
residents of neighboring jurisdictions and other Filipinos. The secondary purpose of the
ITMDH is to provide world-class and updated medical and health training to would-be
volunteers or personnel that will be activated during times of calamities, disasters,
pandemics, or other catastrophic occurrences.

SECTION 4. Statement of Objectives. - The ITMDH shall have the following objectives
for the attainment of its purposes and foe the benefit of its intended patients:

a) To provide affordable or free world-class and world-class medical and health
care to its intended patients.


b) To give these patients easy access to world-class and updated hospital
facilities and hospital care, especially the poor and indigent.

¢) To give updated and world-class training to would-be volunteers or personnel
for calamities, disasters, pandemics, or other catastrophic occurrences.

SECTION 5. /7MDH Bed Capacity. - The ITMDH shall be a general hospital with a bed
capacity of Two Hundred Fifty (250).

SECTION 6. Supervision by DOH. - The ITMDH shall be under the direct supervision of
the Department of Health.

SECTION 7. Hospital Board. — The ITMDH shall be administered by a Board of
Trustees composed of seven (7) members. The following members shall serve ex
officio.

(a) The Mayor of the City of Tagaytay, who shall act as Chairman of the Board of
Trustees;

(b) The Appointed President of ITMDH;
(c) The Regional Director of the Department of Health;
(d) The City Administrator of the City of Tagaytay;

(e) The Governor of the Province of Cavite;

(f) Two (2) representatives from the private sector who are residents of the 8”
District of Cavite, to be appointed by the Mayor of the City of Tagaytay. The term
of the representatives from the private sector shall be three (3) years.

‘A majority of the seven (7) members of the Board of Trustees shall constitute a
quorum to transact business. Any decision of the majority on matters duly presented to
the Board of Trustees shall constitute a valid and binding act of the ITMDH.

The members of the Board of Trustees, except the President, shall serve without
compensation and allowances for the entire duration of their terms. However, each
member of the Board of Trustees shall be entitled to per diem for every board meeting
actually attended. The Board of Trustees shall fix the amount of per diem to its
members may be entitled to, subject to the pertinent budgetary laws, rules and
regulations on compensation, honoraria and allowances.


SECTION 8. Powers of the Hospital Board. — Pursuant to the purposes and objectives
of the ITMDH, the Board of Trustees, shall have all the following powers and is
authorized to act as follows:

(a) Adopt a set of By-Laws to act as its guide in the management of affairs of the
ITMDH. The By-Laws or any amendment to it shall be approved by the Secretary
of Health.

(b) Create a Management Committee, which will handle the day-to-day
operations of the ITMDH. The Management Committee shall be headed by the
Hospital President and the other members shall be medical professionals, who
shall be appointed by the Board of Trustees from the personnel of the ITMDH.

(c) Propose, prepare, approve, amend or revise the organizational structure of
the hospital, both medical and administrative, subject to existing laws and
regulations on the matter and consonant with the existing civil service laws and
sound hospital management.

(d) Approve the annual budget prepared by the Management Committee and
submit the same to the Congress of the Philippines.

(e) Consider and approve appointments and promotions of all personnel of the
ITMDH, upon the recommendation of the Hospital President.

(f) Acquire, hold and own in any manner, property of whatever nature or
description, and to dispose of such property under any mode of encumbrance or
conveyance.

(f) Enter into, make, perform and carry out contracts of every kind and for any
lawful purpose with any person, firm, association or corporation, whether public
or private, domestic or foreign.

(g) Mortgage, lease, sell, transfer, convey or otherwise dispose of its properties.

(h) Solicit and receive donations, endowments and funds in the form of
contributions, whether in cash or in kind, from both the public and private
sectors and from domestic or foreign sources.

(i) Open such accounts in banks and other financial institutions, and to disburse
such funds or invest the same as the Board of Trustees may direct to accomplish
or advance the purposes and objectives of the ITMDH.


G) Invite foreign or local health specialists and similar experts in the various
medical fields to train the personnel, trainees, volunteers, or residents of the 8"
District of Cavite.

(k) Send the personnel of the ITMDH to research institutes, medical institutes or
universities for advance training or observation and to attend international or
regional conventions, conferences, congresses or seminars as may be necessary
to accomplish the purposes and objectives of the ITMDH.

(1) Enter into such agreements and arrangements with other medical or similar
institutions, domestic or foreign, that will promote the purposes and objectives of
the ITMDH.

(m) Adopt such other policies, acts, and matters, necessary for or incidental to
the accomplishment of the purposes and objectives of the ITMDH.

SECTION 9. Hospital President. — The Chief of Hospital shall be the Hospital President
‘of the ITMDH, who shall be appointed by the President of the Philippines, upon the
recommendation from the Board of Trustees. The Hospital President must be a medical
doctor.

The first Hospital President shall serve for a term of six (6) years, unless sooner
removed for cause, resigns, dies or Is incapacitated. The succeeding Hospital Presidents
shall serve for a term of three (3) years, unless sooner removed for cause, resigns, dies
or is incapacitated. A medical doctor may only be appointed to three (3) terms as a
Hospital President of ITMDH

The Hospital President shall receive regular salaries, allowances and other
emoluments, as may be determined by the Board of Trustees. He shall, among others,
recommend the appointment, removal and compensation structure of the personnel
thereof, for the approval of the Board of Trustees. He shall also exercise such other
powers and functions as provided in the By-Laws, and other rules and regulations, as
adopted by the Board of Trustees.

SECTION 10. Setting-Up the ITMDH. - Upon the passage of this law, the Board of
Trustees shall immediately be activated and shall work proactively in setting-up the
hospital, including its construction and the appointment of necessary personnel and the
bids and awards committee. The DOH shall assign an Undersecretary to directly
supervise the setting-up of ITMDH. The Board of Trustees may engage the services of
health, medical, legal, and construction consultants during the setting-up period of the
TTMDH.

SECTION 11. Appropriation. — Two Billion and Five Hundred Seventy Five Million
Pesos (P2,575,000,000.00) shall be appropriated for the prompt setting-up and


construction of the ITMDH. Due to the immediate need to set-up and construct the
ITMDH, said fund shall be downloaded to the City of Tagaytay.

SECTION 12. Resident Auditor — The Commission on Audit shail assign a resident
auditor in the ITMDH.

SECTION 13. Oversight Committees. — For the first six (6) years of the ITMDH, there
shall be Oversight Committees from both the Senate and House of Representatives,
which shall monitor the fulfillment of the purposes and objectives of the hospital.

SECTION 14. Repealing Clause. — All laws, decrees, ordinances, rules and regulations,
executive or administrative orders, and other presidential issuances inconsistent with
this Act are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.

SECTION 15. Separability Clause. — If for any reason, any provision of this Act is
declared invalid or unconstitutional, the remaining provisions not affected thereby shall
continue to have force and effect.

SECTION 16. Effectivity. — This Act shall take effect immediately upon its approval.