Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
TWENTIETH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
House Bill No. 2678 
Introduced by Honorable ALFONSO V. UMALI JR. 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
No less than the 1987 Philippine Constitution ensures the 
right of every Filipinos to health. As categorically stated in 
Section 15, Article II thereof, “the State shall protect and promote 
the right to health of the people and instill health consciousness 
among them.” 
This bill seeks to convert the Oriental Mindoro Provincial 
Hospital (OMPH) in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro, into a 
Regional Hospital. 
At present, the OMPH operates as a service and training-
oriented tertiary medical facility managed by the Provincial 
Government of Oriental Mindoro. It serves as the main referral 
hospital for patients and medical cases requiring tertiary 
specialty medical care from different provincial government 
satellite hospitals and Rural Health Units in the province. 
However, facilities, equipment, medicines, medical supplies, and 
even health professionals and specialists are not sufficient to 
accommodate the needs of its clients. Most of the time, patients, 
especially those under critical conditions, are being transported 
to private hospitals or even to Batangas or Manila in order to get 
the health services required of their condition. 
Given the rapidly-increasing population in the Province of 
Oriental Mindoro, not to mention designation of the province as 
the Regional Center of MIMAROPA, the need for medical services 
proportionately increase. Indispensably, the government health 
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care service providers should be more in keep with such realities 
and the standard of health services they provide have to be at par 
globally. Hence, the OMPH, being the catchment hospital catering 
the provinces of Oriental Mindoro, Occidental Mindoro, 
Marinduque, and Romblon, shall be upgraded 
The increase in bed capacity and upgrading of the OMPH 
into a Regional Hospital can accommodate more patients and 
thus provides better access to quality and affordable health care 
services for the people. 
As compared to building and establishing a new Regional 
Hospital, converting the existing OMPH into a regional hospital is 
the more rational and practical option in order to address the 
immediate health care concerns not only of the people of Oriental 
Mindoro but of those nearby provinces too. 
ALFONSO V. UMALI, JR. 
  
Representative 
 Second District, Oriental Mindoro 


Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
TWENTIETH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
House Bill No. 2678 
Introduced by Honorable ALFONSO V. UMALI JR. 
“AN ACT CONVERTING THE  
ORIENTAL MINDORO PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL  
IN CALAPAN CITY, PROVINCE OF ORIENTAL MINDORO  
INTO A REGIONAL HOSPITAL, TO BE KNOWN AS  
MIMAROPA REGIONAL HOSPITAL, AND APPROPRIATING 
FUNDS THEREFOR” 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the Philippines in Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. The Oriental Mindoro Provincial Hospital in Calapan 
City, Oriental Mindoro shall be converted into a regional hospital 
to be known as “MIMAROPA Regional Hospital” which shall be 
under the direct control and supervision of the Department of 
Health (DOH). 
SECTION 2. The bed capacity of the MIMAROPA Regional 
Hospital shall be increased to at least five hundred (500) beds. 
Any future increase in bed capacity shall be consistent with its 
hospital development plan which shall be prepared by the DOH. 
SECTION 3. The existing professional health care services and 
facilities of the MIMAROPA Regional Hospital are also hereby 
upgraded to conform with and be commensurate to the increase 
of its bed capacity as provided under Section 2 hereof. 
SECTION 4. The existing workforce of the MIMAROPA Regional 
Hospital, which includes doctors, nurses, and support personnel, 


shall also be increased correspondingly. The Secretary of the 
DOH shall, after consultation with the Chief of the MIMAROPA 
Regional Hospital, and in coordination with the Secretary of the 
Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and the 
Commissioner of the Civil Service Commission, determine the 
additional new positions to be created and filled up. 
SECTION 5. The DBM, in consultation with the DOH and the 
Provincial Government of Oriental Mindoro, shall determine the 
cost of renationalized functions relative to the operations of the 
MIMAROPA Regional Hospital from its current Internal Revenue 
Allotment (IRA) and thereafter, and cause the allocation of the 
same to the DOH chargeable against the IRA of the Provincial 
Government of Oriental Mindoro. 
SECTION 6. 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. 
SECTION 7. If any provision or part of this Act is declared 
unconstitutional, the remaining parts or provisions not affected 
shall remain in full force and effect. 
SECTION 8. All laws, executive orders, issuances, rules and 
regulations inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed or 
modified accordingly. 
SECTION 9. Effectivity. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) 
days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper 
of general circulation. 
Approved.