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Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
Third Regular Session

9168

HOUSE BILL NO.
Introduced by: Hon. Angelina “Helen” D.L. Tan, M.D.

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A FIVE HUNDRED (500)-BED CAPACITY
REGIONAL TRAINING AND TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE CITY OF
LUCENA, PROVINCE OF QUEZON AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS
THEREFOR

EXPLANATORY NOTE

It is an enshrined principle in the Declaration of Principles and State Policies of
the 1987 Philippine Constitution that the State shall protect and promote the right to
health of the people and instill health consciousness among them.' Moreover, it
provides 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.?

In that respect, government hospitals have been created and maintained in order
to deliver the government mandate of promoting health and adequately provide
healthcare to all Filipinos.

Regional hospitals serve a larger area, provide a broad range of healthcare and
sometimes serve specific needs that a provincial and municipal hospital cannot provide.
In contrast with other regions of the Philippines which have more than one regional
hospital, Region 4A (CALABARZON) is the lone political subdivision with a single
regional hospital which is Batangas Medical Center with five hundred (500) beds. It
caters the medical needs of five (5) provinces, namely: Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal,
and Quezon, and one highly urbanized city, Lucena.3 The region is the most populous
region in the Philippines, having 14,414,774 inhabitants in 2015.4

Furthermore, establishing a Regional Training and Teaching Hospital in Lucena
City, a strategic location in the western area of CALABARZON would providemore
accessible health services and training facilities for medical practitioners in nearby
provinces especially for far flung towns of Quezon Province considering that Lucena City
is 84.2 kilometers and the southernmost town of Quezon is 269 kilometers away from
Batangas, respectively.

1Section 15, Article II, 1987 Philippine Constitution

2Section 11, Article XIII, 1987 Philippine Constitution

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In view thereof, it is imperative that another regional training and teaching
hospital which is more responsive and comprehensive be established to decongest
patient overpopulation in Batangas Medical Center and nearby hospitals to address the
immediate medical needs of the people not only in Quezon province but in the entire
CALABARZON area.

In view of the foregoing considerations, early approval of this bill is earnestly
sought.

ANGELINA. me Cn TAN, M.D.

4th District, Quezon


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
‘Third Regular Session
9168
HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by: Hon. Angelina “Helen” D.L. Tan, M.D.

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A FIVE HUNDRED (500)-BED CAPACITY
REGIONAL TRAINING AND TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE CITY OF
LUCENA, PROVINCE OF QUEZON AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS.
THEREFOR

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

SEC. 1. There shall be established a five hundred (500) bed capacity regional
training and teaching hospital in the City of Lucena, Province of Quezon, in accordance
with the standards of the Department of Health to be known as Quezon Regional
Hospital.

SEC. 2. The Secretary of Health shallpromulgate therules and regulations
necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act within sixty (60) days from effectivity.

SEC. 3. The Secretary of Health shall immediately include in the Department's
programs the implementation of this Act, the funding of which shall be charged against
the succeeding year’s appropriation of the DOH and thereafter, such sums as may be
necessary for its continued operations shall be included in the annual General
Appropriations Act.

SEC. 4. All laws, executive orders, decrees, issuances, rules and regulations or
parts thereof inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed or
modified accordingly.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication the Official
Gazette or in a national newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,