Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO.   _________________________  
Introduced by Rep. Wilfrido Mark M. Enverga 
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        EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The Constitution provides that the State shall promote and protect the right to 
health of the people. It is likewise mandated to adopt an integrated and comprehensive 
approach to health development and shall endeavor to make essential good health and 
other social services available to all the people at affordable cost.          
   In the Province of Quezon, the delivery of public health services in the province is 
made through the operation of various public health facilities like government hospitals, 
municipal health centers and rural health units. There are about 16 government hospitals 
with Quezon Memorial Hospital in Lucena City, as the biggest hospital with 220-bed 
capacity. Other district hospitals are located in Alabat, Atimonan, Lopez, Gumaca, 
Mauban, Infanta, Catanauan, Tagkawayan, Sampaloc, Polillo, Unisan, Candelaria, 
Guinayangan, San Francisco and San Narciso. They have an aggregate bed capacity of only 
585 as of the Year 2000. Hence there is not enough hospital beds in the province 
especially in the first district of Quezon which only has 80 hospital beds inadequate to 
service the in patients. 
This bill seeks to re-nationalize Claro M. Recto Memorial District Hospital located 
at the Municipality of Infanta, Province of Quezon, placing under the direct supervision 
and control of the Department of Health, increasing its bed capacity to 100 beds and 
appropriating funds therefor. 
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           Claro M. Recto Memorial District Hospital has a limited resources to maintain the 
existing facilities, old equipment that are beyond repair and needs upgrade and limited 
services leading to patients referred to other health providers. Furthermore,  
losses incurred due to none operational of medical equipment and the lack of personnel 
because of inadequate financial resources to fund repair or purchase and additional 
hiring of health workers are also evident and should be adequately address immediately. 
 
              The re-nationalization of the hospital will substantially contribute to the revolving 
role of the hospital to the Universal Health Care by having an optimum clinical 
performance in case management through incentives mechanism; improve quality of 
patient care with a good working environment and access provision to quality health care 
facilities and health promotion incentives. Finally, the hospital needs to be supervised by 
the national government to assure continuous fund and aid for the hospital and not to 
further rely on funds from the provincial government. 
 
              In light of the foregoing, passage of this bill is urgently sought.  
 
       
 
 
                                                                        
 
                          WILFRIDO MARK MC. ENVERGA 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO.   _________________________  
Introduced by Rep. Wilfrido Mark M. Enverga 
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 
AN ACT RE-NATIONALIZING CLARO M. RECTO MEMORIAL DISTRICT 
HOSPITAL LOCATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF INFANTA, PROVINCE OF 
QUEZON, PLACING UNDER THE DIRECT SUPERVISION AND CONTROL OF 
THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, INCREASING ITS BED CAPACITY TO ONE 
HUNDRED (100) AND  APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
Philippines in Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1.  The Claro M. Recto Memorial District Hospital in the Municipality of 
Infanta, Province of Quezon, is hereby re-nationalized and/or returned to the 
management, supervision and control of the national government particularly the 
Department of Health.  Its bed capacity furthermore is hereby increased to One 
Hundred (100). 
SEC. 2.   The hospital’s operating fund and existing service facilities and professional 
health care services are also hereby increased and upgraded to conform with and be 
commensurate to the re-nationalization and to the bed capacity increased as provided 
for in Section 1 hereof. 
SEC  3. The Secretary of Health shall include in the Department’s program the 
implementation of this Act, the funding of which shall be included in the annual General 
Appropriations Act. 
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                  The Local Government Unit (LGU) concerned shall continue to provide funding 
for Claro M. Recto Memorial District Hospital until such time that their full funding is 
included in the Annual General Appropriations Act. 
 
SEC   4.   The Department of Health shall formulate the rules and regulations necessary 
in the implementation of this Bill, upon consultations with the Provincial Government of 
Quezon and other stakeholders, and shall be implemented consistent with the Hospital 
Development Plan. 
 
SEC  5 . This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after the completion of its publication 
in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
 
 Approved,