SIXTEENTH CONGRESS
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES )
Third Regular Session )

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
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House Bill No. 6370
EXPLANATORY NOTE

Article I, Section 15 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution provides that, “The State
shall protect and promote the right to health of the people and instill health consciousness
among them".

Article XIII, Section 11 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution further 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 under-privileged, sick,
elderly, disabled, women, and children. The State shall endeavor to provide free medical
care to paupers”

These provisions highlight the fact that it is the govemment's basic responsibility to
provide for quality health care to Filipino people which encompasses primary health care
services offered by barangay health centers and primary-level hospitals up to secondary and
tertiary-level health care whenever possible.

To do this, the National Government must establish new hospitals or upgrade
existing ones in areas where people depend largely on public hospitals for their health care
needs because of the scarcity of private hospitals and in areas where the population has
increased but health services have not.

Such is the case of J.R. Borja General Hospital. 2014 Data shows that historical bed
occupancy rate has increased to 136.81% from 78.46% in 2014 and patients’ average length
of stay likewise lengthened to 5.54 days from the previous 4.47. In-patients attended to
jumped 40% to 4,439 from only 3,176 in the previous period. Outpatients also increased
16.3% to 16,476 from the previous period. Emergency room cases attended to increased
15.3% to 11,435 while operations rocketed 50% to 532 from the previous period.

The hospital has also increased their employees to address the increase in patients
by hiring 32 new employees to bolster the existing plantilla of 61

Despite all the new nurses, staff and doctors, there is still a need to expand the
hospital to further address the ever increasing population of Cagayan de Oro City. This is
why the J.R. Borja Hospital should be converted into a national hospital to have more funds
in order to expand its bed capacity and upgrade its facilities to optimize the services it offers
to the public.

In view of the foregoing, immediate passage of this bill is earnestly requested.

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MAXI . RODRIGUEZ, JR.


‘SIXTEENTH CONGRESS )
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES }
Third Regular Session

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Introduced by Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez and
Representative Maximo B. Rodriquez, Jr.

House Bill No. 6370

AN ACT
CONVERTING THE J.R. BORJA MEMORIAL CITY HOSPITAL IN CAGAYAN DE ORO
CITY INTO A TERTIARY LEVEL MEDICAL CENTER UNDER THE DIRECT CONTROL,
SUPERVISION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO BE
KNOWN AS J.R. BORJA MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER AND APPROPRIATING
FUNDS THEREFOR

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

Section 1. The J.R. Borja Memorial City Hospital in Cagayan de Oro City is hereby
converted into a Tertiary Level Medical Center to be known as the J.R. Borja Memorial
Medical Center;

Section 2. The J.R. Borja Memorial Medical Center shall be under the direct control,
supervision and management of the Department of Health.

Section 3. The Department of Health shall issue the necessary rules and regulations for the
effective implementation of this act.

Section 4, The amount necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act shall be included in
the General Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment into law and thereafter.

Section 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved,