EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE) 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ) 
First Regular Session 
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SENATE 
S.B. NO. 1551
Introduced by SENATOR IMEE R. MARCOS
AN ACT
CONVERTING THE ORANI DISTRICT HOSPITAL IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF 
ORANI, PROVINCE OF BATAAN INTO A GENERAL HOSPITAL TO BE KNOWN 
AS THE ORANI GENERAL HOSPITAL AND INCREASING ITS BED CAPACITY 
FROM FIFTY (50) TO TWO HUNDRED (200) BEDS, AND APPROPRIATING
FUNDS THEREFOR
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Article II, Section 15 of the 1987 Constitution provides that the State shall 
protect the right to health of the people and instill health consciousness among them. 
It is the policy of the state to ensure that all communities have access to quality and 
accessible healthcare.
The Orani District Hospital is a fifty (50) bed capacity hospital catering to the 
medical and health care needs of the municipality and its neighboring municipalities. 
Based on the latest census, the population of the Municipality of Orani has reached 
66,909. Based on records, patients that need admission has been increasing and the 
fifty (50)-bed capacity is inadequate to provide the needs of the residents of Orani 
and other communities that come and seek its services. It must be noted that since 
the inception of the hospital, it has continuously served, without fail and it will continue 
to do so once its authorized bed capacity is increased and its facilities upgraded.
To address this issue, this bill proposes to convert the Orani District Hospital 
from a fifty (50) bed capacity district hospital to a two hundred (200) bed capacity 
Level 2 general hospital, thereby renaming it to the Orani General Hospital. This would 
make professional medical and health care more accessible to those who are residents 
of Orani and its neighboring communities.
In view of the foregoing, the passage of this bill is earnestly sought.
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IMEE R. MARCOS
Senator


EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE) 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ) 
First Regular Session 
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SENATE 
S.B. NO. 1551
Introduced by SENATOR IMEE R. MARCOS
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AN ACT
CONVERTING THE ORANI DISTRICT HOSPITAL IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF 
ORANI, PROVINCE OF BATAAN INTO A GENERAL HOSPITAL TO BE KNOWN 
AS THE ORANI GENERAL HOSPITAL AND INCREASING ITS BED CAPACITY 
FROM FIFTY (50) TO TWO HUNDRED (200) BEDS, AND APPROPRIATING
FUNDS THEREFOR
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines 
in Congress assembled:
Section 1. The Orani District Hospitai located in the Municipaiity of Orani, 
Province of Zambales, is hereby upgraded into a ievei 2 general hospital and its 
authorized bed capacity increased from fifty (50) to two hundred (200) beds.
Section 2. The Orani District Hospitai shail hereafter be renamed as the "Orani 
Generai Hospital," hereinafter referred to as the Hospitai.
Section 3. The increase in bed capacity of the Hospital shall be implemented 
for a period of two (2) years from the approvai of this Act.
Section 4. The existing hospitai faciiities and professionai heaith care services 
of the Hospitai shail correspondingly be upgraded to include the increase of medicai 
personnel. The Department of Health (DOH) shall promulgate the necessary rules and 
regulations of the effective impiementation of this Act.
Section 4. The DOH, through its approved annual budget, shall initially provide 
the necessary funding to support the increase in bed capacity of the Hospitai. The 
entire budgetary requirements of Hospital for its operation and the upgrading of its 
facilities and services shaii be inciuded in the annual General Appropriations Act the 
foilowing year of its enactment.
Section 5. The Department of Heaith shaii promuigate the necessary ruies and 
regulations for the effective impiementation of this Act.


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Section 6. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the
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Official Gazette or in a national newspaper of general circulation.
Approved,