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Republic of the Philippines mar
pace, 11 AUG 2016

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

Introduced by HON. MA. THERESA V, COLLANTES.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

‘This bill seeks to increase the hospital bed of Laurel Memorial District Hospital in ‘Tanauan City,
Batangas from Twenty-Five (25) beds to Fifty (50) beds

The 1987 Philippine Constitution greatly promotes the right of people to proper health care. This
is specifically indicates in Article Il, Section 15 provision of the Constitution “The State shall protect and
promote the right (o health of the people and instill consciousness among them”. It was again mentioned
in the Article XIII, Section 11 the importance of providing health care to the people by the Government,
which states “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 people at
affordable cost. There shall be priority for the needs of the under-privileged, sick, elderly, disabled,
women and children.”

It is imperative that we address this immediate need to upgrade our hospitals in order to cater the
necessary health care needs of our people. Due to the increasing hospital occupancy rate, the local
government cannot sustain the increasing demand of the patients for hospital facilities and professionals.
We don’t want them staying in the hallways of the hospital while recuperating from illness or injury
and/or waiting to be attended to by physicians, We want them to recover the soonest possible through
best hospital facilities and professionals

In order to meet these demands, it is important that the government provides adequate support
through modernization and upgrading of hospitals

Hence, the urgent need to improve the health care services of the Laurel Memorial District
Hospital by increasing its hospital bed from 25 to 50,upgrading its facilities and professional health care.

‘The passage of this bill is earnestly sought.

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HON. MA. THERESA V. COLLANTES



Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

Seventeenth Congress
Pirst Regular Session

House Bill No.8

Introduced by HON. MA, THERESA V, COLLANTES

AN ACT
INCREASING THE BED CAPACITY OF THE LAUREL MEMORIAL DISTRICT
HOSPITAL FROM TWENTY FIVE (25) TO FIFTY (50) BEDS, UPGRADING THE
SERVICE FACILITIES AND PROFESSIONAL HEALTH CARE THEREIN, AND
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Cougress
assembled.

SECTION 1, The authorized bed capacity of the Laurel Memorial District Hospital in
Fanauan City, Batangas is hereby increased from Twenty Five (25) to Pilly (30)

SEC. 2. Existing service facilities and professional health care services are also hereby

upgraded to conform with and commensurate to the bed capacity increuse as provided in Section

ts above-cited.

SLC. 3. The existing workforce of the Laurel Memorial District Hospital shall also be
correspondingly increased. ‘The Department of Health, in coordination with the Departnent of
Budget and Management and the Civil Service Commission, shall determine the additional
positions 10 be created and filled up upon consultation with the Laurel Memorial Distiiet
Hospital

SLC, 4. ‘The increase in bed capacity of the Laurel Memorial District Hospital from
Hwenty Five (25) w Filly (50) beds shall be implemented for a period of not more than thee (3)
yeurs from the approval of this Aet.

SLC, 5. ‘The amount necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act shall be included i
the General Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment into law and therealiet

Approved