Republic of the Philippines 91 AUG 2013
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES j 4: 4p Pa
‘Quezon City

16" Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 2230

Introduced By Honorable BAl SANDRA SINSUAT A. SEMA

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Constitution in Section 15 of Article I provides that: “The State shail
protect and advance the right to health of the people and instill health consciousness
among them.” In Section 11, Article XIll, it also mandates that: “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 Province of Maguindanao has 36 municipalities. However, there are only
seven (7) hospitals in the province with a total bed capacity of 137 or a ratio of one
(1) hospital bed for 6,797 populations. Five (5) of these hospitals are government
retained under the IPHO Maguindanao supervision. The table below shows an
occupancy rate of 110% for the government retained hospitals.

Government retained Hospitals in Maguindanao Province

Name of Hospital Location Bed | Occupancy

Capacity | Rate (2006)
1.Maguindanao Provincial Hospital Shariff Aguak 50 86%
2. Buluan District Hospital Buluan 25 83%
3. Datu Blah T. Sinsuat District Hospital | North Upi 10 152%
4. Dinaig Municipal Hospital Datu Odin 10 117%

Sinsuat

5. South Upi Municipal Hospital South Upi 10 113%
TOTAL. 105 110%

At present, there is no existing hospital in the Municipality of Parang. There is
a paramount need to build a hospital in the said municipality that will provide the
much-needed health care services. With a population of 102,247 and growing, there
is a pressing call to establish a hospital or health care facility in the municipality that
will provide the community with maternal and child health care, give emergency
attention and medication, and make available the required medical treatment upon
admission.


Early approval of this bill is earnestly sought.

BAI SANDRA SINSUAT A. SEMA


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

16" Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILLNO,___ 2230 _

Introduced By Honorable BAI SANDRA SINSUAT A, SEMA

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TEN-BED CAPACITY DISTRICT HOSPITAL IN THE
MUNICIPALITY OF PARANG, PROVINCE OF MAGUINDANAO, TO BE
KNOWN AS THE PARANG DISTRICT HOSPITAL, AND APPROPRIATING
FUNDS THEREFOR

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

SEC1. There shall be established, a ten (10)-bed district hospital in the
Municipality of Parang, Province of Maguindanao, to be known as the Parang District
Hospital.

SEC. 2. The Provincial Government of Maguindanao shall provide funding for
the establishment of the Parang District Hospital in the Municipality of Parang. The
Secretary of Health shall include in the Department's subsidy program, support for
the capital outlay requirements of the said district hospital.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after is publication in at
least two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,