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SENATE
S.B. No. 1 576
RECEiVLD BY.
Introduced by SEN. WIN GATCHALIAN
AN ACT
UPGRADING THE APARRI PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL IN THE MUNICIPALITY 
OF APARRI, PROVINCE OF CAGAYAN INTO A LEVEL II GENERAL HOSPITAL 
TO BE KNOWN AS THE APARRI MEDICAL CENTER, PLACING IT UNDER THE 
DIRECT SUPERVISION AND CONTROL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, 
INCREASING ITS BED CAPACITY TO 100 BEDS, UPGRADING ITS 
PROFESSIONAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES AND FACILITIES, AUTHORIZING 
THE INCREASE OF ITS MEDICAL PERSONNEL AND APPROPRIATING
FUNDS THEREFOR
EXPLANATORY NOTE
One of the means to implement the constitutional mandate enunciated in 
Section 11, Article XIII of the 1987 Constitution1 is to ensure that our health facilities, 
especially hospitals, in cities and provinces are improved and provided with adequate 
resources and support to serve the needs of the people.
For more than 47 years, the Aparri Provincial Hospital (APH) has served not 
only the ailing constituents of the municipality of Aparri, Cagayan but also patients 
coming from its neighboring towns of Lallo, Gattaran, Buguey, Camanalaniugan, Sta. 
Ana, Sta. Teresa, Gonzaga, Lasam, Allacapan, Island of Camiguin and Calayan. With 
the passage of Republic Act No. 7381 in 1992, the APH became a referral hospital of
1 Sec. 11. The State shall adopt an integrated and comprehensive approach to health development 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.


different district hospitals in the Province of Cagayan and the Island of Calayan and 
Camiguin.
However, the growing population of the municipality of Aparri and its nearby 
towns and the absence of a nearby higher-level hospital facilities emphasize the need 
to upgrade and rehabilitate APH's facilities to allow it to provide a higher quality of 
health care services to its constituents and to alleviate the hardships of patients from 
neighboring towns to travel long hours to Tuguegarao City to avail the services of a 
higher-level kind of hospital.
Accordingly, this bill seeks to upgrade the existing Aparri Provincial Hospital in 
the Municipality of Aparri in the Province of Cagayan into a Level II General Hospital 
under the direct supervision and control of the Department of Health, to increase its 
bed capacity to 100 beds, to upgrade its professional health care services and 
facilities, and to authorize the increase in its medical personnel.
Considering the laudable objective of this bill, its immediate passage is 
earnestly sought.


NINETEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session
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SENATE
S. B. No. 1576
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•22 DEC-5 A8 ’A2
RtCEIVLD BV:
Introduced by SEN. WIN GATCHALIAN
AN ACT
UPGRADING THE APARRI PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL IN THE 
MUNICIPALITY OF APARRI, PROVINCE OF CAGAYAN INTO A 
LEVEL II GENERAL HOSPITAL TO BE KNOWN AS THE APARRI 
MEDICAL CENTER, PLACING IT UNDER THE DIRECT SUPERVISION 
AND CONTROL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, INCREASING ITS 
BED CAPACITY TO 100 BEDS, UPGRADING ITS PROFESSIONAL 
HEALTH CARE SERVICES AND FACILITIES, AUTHORIZING THE 
INCREASE OF ITS MEDICAL PERSONNEL AND APPROPRIATING
FUNDS THEREFOR
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines 
in Congress assembled:
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SECTION 1. The Aparri Provincial Hospital in the Municipality of Aparri,
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Province of Cagayan, is hereby upgraded from a Level I into a Level II General
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Hospital to be known as the Aparri Medical Center (AMC) which shail be placed
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under the management, direct supervision and control of the Department of
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Health (DOH).
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The authorized bed capacity of the medical center is hereby increased
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from seventy-five (75) to one hundred (100) beds. Any future increase in the
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hospital's bed capacity shall be based on its hospital development plan which
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shall be prepared by the hospital management of the AMC and submitted to the 
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SEC. 2. The existing operating fund, service capability, and professional 
health care services of the AMC shall be upgraded and increased to conform 
with and be commensurate to its nationalization and the increase in bed capacity 
as provided in Section 1 hereof, consistent with the hospital development plan.
SEC. 3. The existing workforce of the AMC, including doctors, nurses and 
support personnel shall be correspondingly increased to conform with Section 1 
of this Act, consistent with the hospital development plan.
The DOH, in coordination with the Department of Budget and 
Management (DBM) and the Civil Service Commission (CSC) and in consultation 
with the management of the AMC, shall determine the additional plantilla 
positions to be created and filled up.
SEC. 4. The Secretary of the DOH shall immediately include in the 
Department's program the implementation of this Act, the funding of which shall 
be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
SEC. 5. Within ninety (90) days from the effectivity of this Act, the DOH 
shall formulate the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) necessary to carry 
out the purposes of this Act. The IRR shall be consistent and implemented with 
the hospital development plan.
SEC. 6. If any portion or provision of this Act be declared 
unconstitutional, invalid or inoperable, the remaining portions or provisions 
hereof that are not affected shall remain in full force and effect.
SEC. 7. All other laws, decrees, executive orders, issuances, rules and 
regulations, or parts thereof which are inconsistent with the provisions of this 
Act are hereby amended, repealed, or modified accordingly.


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SEC. 8. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in
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the Official Gazette o^c in a newspaper of general circulation in the Philippines.
Approved,