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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 4252

INTRODUCED BY REP. MAXIMO, JR. Y. DALOG

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Luis Hora Memorial Regional Hospital (LHMRH) is strategically
located at the heart of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) catering to
the provinces of Mountain Province, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga and Abra as its
primary catchment areas and the neighboring municipalities of the llocos
Region as its secondary catchment areas. With the continuous improvement
of the roads and the operationalization of the hospital in accordance with its
bed capacity, it is not surprising that the number of patients had been
increasing year after year since 2013.' In fact, in 2016, one of the first bills
filed by then Congressman Maximo B. Dalog was to increase the bed capacity
of the hospital considering that the hospital can no longer accommodate the
number of patients in the hospital rooms to the point that they sometimes
occupy the hospital hallways.

With the increasing number of patients who seek the services of the Luis Hora
Memorial Regional Hospital, its facilities is not enough to cater to emergency
and trauma cases which account for several admissions in the hospital
considering the susceptibility of the Cordillera Administrative Region to
vehicular traffic accidents due to its geographical terrain and extreme weather
conditions. In the first semester of 2018 alone, vehicular traffic accidents
comprise sixty percent (60%) of the crimes recorded in the region®.

+ Rachel A. Benito, Luis Hora Memorial Regional Hospital- Hospital Profile, Statistical Data, 3-4, Luis Hora
Memorial Regional Hospital, August 20, 2019.

2 Maximo B. Dalog, “An Act Increasing the Bed Capacity of the Luis Hora Memorial Regional Hospital in the
Province of Mountain Province from One Hundred (100) Beds to Two Hundred (200) Beds, Upgrading the
Service Facilities and Professional Health Care Therein, and Appropriating Funds Therefore, Explanatory Note,
House Bill 282, Seventeenth Congress, June 30, 2016.

> Liza Agoot, Vehicular Mishaps Account for Bulk of Cordillera Police Cases, Philippine News Agency, available
at URL: https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1045040, August 28, 2019, citing report released by Regional
Operations and Planning Division chief Senior Supt. Homer Penecilla

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The creation therefore of an emergency medical service and trauma
center is crucial to respond to the emergency and trauma cases in the region.

In view of the foregoing, approval of this bill is earnestly urged.



Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 4252

INTRODUCED BY REP. MAXIMO, JR. Y. DALOG

AN ACT ESTABLISHING AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE AND
TRAUMA CENTER AT THE LUIS HORA MEMORIAL REGIONAL
HOSPITAL LOCATED AT ABATAN, BAUKO, MOUNTAIN PROVINCE
CHANGING ITS NAME FROM LUIS HORA MEMORIAL REGIONAL
HOSPITAL TO LUIS HORA MEMORIAL REGIONAL HOSPITAL AND
TRAUMA CENTER AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR”

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

Section 1. There shall be established, under the supervision of the
Department of Health, an Emergency Medical Service and Trauma Center
located at Luis Hora Memorial Regional Hospital, Abatan, Bauko, Mountain
Province.

Sec. 2. The Luis Hora Memorial Regional Hospital shall now be
known as Luis Hora Memorial Regional Hospital and Trauma Center.

Sec. 3. The existing facilities and professional health care services
of the Luis Hora Memorial Regional Hospital and Trauma Center are hereby
upgraded to conform and be commensurate to the establishment of an
emergency medical service and trauma center as provided in Secction 1
hereof.

Sec. 4. The existing workforce of the Luis Hora Memorial Regional
Hospital and Trauma Center shall also be increased corresponding to the
needed positions for an emergency medical service and trauma center. The
Department of Health shall, in coordination with the Department of Budget and
Management and the Civil Service Commission, and after consultation with
the Luis Hora Memorial Regional Hospital and Trauma Center, determine the
additional plantilla positions to be created and filled up.


Sec. 5. The Secretary of Health 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. 6. All laws, executive orders, presidential decrees, rules and
regulations and other issuances contrary to or inconsistent with any provision
this Act are hereby amended, repealed or modified accordingly.

Sec. 7. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its

publication in the Official Gazette or in at least two (2) newspapers of general
circulation.

Approved,