FIFTEENTH CONGRESS

Pirst Regular Session

2589

JSE BILL No.

Introduced by HONORABLE BERNARDO M. VERGARA

lical Docter Charles L, Cheng. It was
House Bill No. 1022 during the 14"
Congress. [= was approved by the House on 2! smitted and received by the Senate

‘on 2008-1 1-20.

Dr. Charles Cheng has been a permanent
ne Bersamira-Cheng of Baguio

Born of Chinese parents in Baguio City
resident in this country up ta the present. He is married to Kathes
City, and they are blessed with wo (2) children.

Dr. & wed his eienentary, seconda tertiary (AB-1956) education in
Baguio City and bis professional medical studies at the University of Sto. Tomas, Manila, in
1961. Since then, he has been a lifetime [ellow at the Philippine Academy of Family Physicians
bf the Royat Society of Tropical Medicine sx= Hygieve, an¢ of the Philippine Medical
Association. He w: gramee of a scholarship ven by the International Planned
Parenthood Federation- Southeast Asia and Oceania —to tain in Singapore in 1965

Dr. Cheng is the founder and medical doctor of the Bazuio Filipino-Chinese General
Hospital in Baguio City, a hospital that has served and is still serving well the people of the
Cordillera and the neighboring provinces in North and Central Luzon.

iis ardent desire to utilize his multifarious talents in the service of Filipinos is gleaned
trom a number of his published works and activities, as follows:

1. Four (4) books authorized by Lim, ie, in relation to public health and three relating co
historical research. Onz of his books. entitled “Pesticides: its Hazardous Effects to Man



Her Among the Women Farmers of Buguias and Kabayan,
ly. 1994;
es among Medical Technology Students at the

(12) The Silent
Benguet: A Comparative Ste
(13) Common Intestinal Par
University of Baguio; and .
(44) lncidence of Intestinal Parasites and the Academic Performance of the — +
Medical Students at the University of Baguio;

4, An acupuncture expert for many years, he applies such knowledge and expertise in the
treatment of a number of illnesses and bodily misfenctions. [fis publications on this form
of treatment are hereby enumerated, to wit:

(1) Acupuncture and the Treatment of Common Ailments,
(2) Acupressure as Fold Medicine;
(3) Treatment of Common Ailments with Acupressure;
(4) Acupressure Technique:
(5) Electro-Acupuncture in the Treatment of Cancer Pain, 1987; and
(0) other Researches on Acupuncture such a
(a) Acupuncture in Bell's Patsy;
(b) Trigeminal Neuralgia Among Filipinos Treated with Acupuncture;
(©) Biostati Profile of Filipines Seeking Acupuncture Treatment;
(@) Herpes Zoster and Acupuncture; (e) Tinnitus Among Filipinos and
Acupuncture;
(1) Diseases of the Joint and Acupuncture;
(g) Weight Reduction Through Acupuncture;
(h) Smoking Withdrawal Through Acupuncture;
(i)Hypertension
G) Leprosy anu Acupuncture; and
cer Treated Through Acupuncture,

Medicine, he has helped a lot of Filipino athletes throughout the
years. The 2nd SEA Games athletes benetited much in terms of training, His publications
on Sports Medicine published in a number of national and local papers are hereto listed:

(1) Sixteen Years of B
(2) Alcohol and Sports;

(3) Running a Lifetime Exercise;

(4) Heat Injury Syndrome Among Athletes ment and Prevention;
(5) Improving the Physical Fitness Protile of Executives;

(6) Diabetes and Exercis
(7) Maturity and Classi
(8) Rope Skipping: An Alternative to Aerol
(9) Asthmatic and Exercise

Mode of Exercise; and

6. A number of other publications dealing with the social impact of medical practices,
medical technofogy, medical education, acceptability of herbal drugs, etc on the
Cordillera people are available at the libraries and research centers of colleges and



ions “oslo

universities iz the Condillera Administrative Region. A list of these pu’

town

mud Medicat Practice, 1971
jefical Pechoulogy Students at the Universi
c Perception af the Hospitals in the City of Bi
cal Student: His Motivation, Pecception of
Climate of Leaming

ok into the
Students, 197%;
teristics ane P
the Waive
(7) Bartha
(SEconemie end Soe
(9) Peweption of Attitude To
Practitioners and Con:

of Bagni:

Faculty, Peers and

of th:

leva hilippine Medical Falveation by the

ced Problems of the Medical Teclinology Students

thant a Inandved of honors and awards for
citations embadied in plaques oF cestiticates. are hereby

is services. A liew most innportant awvere!s ad
mentioned, 10 wit:

oe Date Venue] Host Ageney_
‘Of tie Fisgiio Fiipino~ | June 23, 2006 “Baguio Ioret Supreme
| Cantonese Association . 2000-2606

V3) Promotion oF amateur box

| Roxas elementary Sctial |
(Ve tose Po Rizal Awardor -
me Achievement,

| Excellence: Life
Aw

}) Most Outstanding Senior Citizen in
Medicine and Community Service-
September 3,2005_

| Conterence

Bavuio City Govern

tunconelitional support Kor
(Chaitman of the Community Cou
| of Elders in the peuce-keeping
program projects af the Police
___Repional Office - Corditiera
LD) Katapway 2005 for exemplary



\

leadership, excellence and highly
meritorious in the peomotion of sports
__among the youth,

(8) Appreciation for being one of the
judges in the selection of Outstanding
Citizens of Baguio

() Recognition for his active
| involvement in the Filipino-Chinese
Spring Festival Celebration

Baguio City Government and
lipino-chinese Community

(10) Appreciation for his zealous
participation in the promotion of
Filipino-Chinese ur derstanding
celebration of Spring Festival as

‘ce-Chairman to the executive

(0 City Government and
Filipino-chinese Community

jon for the generous
Support to the Feeding Program, stool
examination and deworming of the
students of Roxas Elemetary Schoo!
trom 2000-2005 _

| Mareh 22, 2005

Roxas Elementary School
Parent-Teachers Community
Federation

(13) “Appreciation for the total

commitment in the pursuit and ideals
|_-_ ofthe Rotary eats
(13) Recognition as an active partner
of the PNP in the campaign sigainst
criminality and promotion of peace
and order in the Cordillera
RegionCamp Dangwa,

(14) ~ Recognition for his unconditional
commitment to the promotion of
amateur boxing being the Regional
ABAP-CAR

1004/Camp
Dangwa

| November 10 2005 | Rotary Club North-Baguio

October 29, 2004

Regional OfficePOR-CAR)

Philippine Sports Commission
| , Office of the President

|

| (15) Appreciation for being one of the
judges in the selection of outstanding
citizens oF Baguio

City Government of Baguio

(16) Active invoiv in the
Filipino-Chinese Spring Festival
Celebration, a joint undertaking of the
City Government and

February 9, 2

Baguio City Government and
ilipino-chinese Community

(7) “Appreciation for
participation in the 94th Baguio

September 1, 2004

Baguio City Government



Piiilippine Wpmen’s amateur Boxing | Thailand
Team where the Philippines ranked |

fourth among eleven competing —_|
countries in the First Asian Amateur |
Women’s Boxing Championships |
[By Rifecively Leading all chapter |
| aetivities of the Philippine Academy |
___of Physicians, Inc. |
(GO) Service Award for 1993 t0 2001]

‘April 4, 2002

Philippine Academy of
| Physicians, Inc.

GI) Invaluable support and resource | February 7, 2001/
person on the Season Long Training | Loo Polytechnic |
on Integrated Pests Management —_| College, Buguias
UPM) on vegetables at Loo |

___ Polytechnic College, Buguias __| al

{33) Recognition for continuously | Sepiember 1, 2001 | Office of the President,
devoting his time, elfort, support and | | Philippine Sports Commission
resources in the development of |}
diferent sports in Baguio City which |

| highlighted the inclusion of |

amateur boxers to the Phi i
National Team oo iu
(3) Appreciation for the sharing of — | huly 6, 2001 Bagu

government and

his expertise on the ill etfects of Baguio Nutrition council
\ pesticides on health during the
Punong Barangay symposium in line

Baguio City Government

} Most Outstanding C
|__ Baguio - Millennia

zptember 1, 2000

‘August 20007 | DMMMSU, La Union

723) Recognition as the resource

person on Clean Technology and | Bacnotan, La
Waste Management at Don Mariano | Union |
Marcos Memorial State 1 \

7S) Invaluable services supportive to | May 19, 20007
the conduet of Potato Leafininer
Management Training for Municipal

sind Barangay Task force

(37) Dr. Jose Rizal Award ia Medicine

Phil
eg a Association
| 38) Recognition as resource person j December 11, ANI-Luzon and Furming
during the ANE-Network | 19997 Benguet Organic Advocates:

International Trainer's Training at the | State University
Agricultural Training institute: |



Marijuana among the Youth” T woes
(9) PMA-ABBOTT Research Award | May 24, 19917
for “The Cordillerans: Earthquake | PICC, Manila
Experience and their Psychological
Suflerings: a Retrospective Study _|

(50) Appreciation for his Community | May 15, 1985 Rotary Club of Baguio North,
e _| Region 1, District 379
i “| May 28, 1984 Baguio City Government
December 4, Population Commission
1984/San Fernado, | (POPCOM), Region 1, La
- _| La Union Union _ |
|(53) Appreciation for his Meritorious | May 25, 1982/ Women’s Auxiliary to the
Service PICC, Manila Philippine Medical

(a) PMA-CIBA GEIGY Research | May 22, 1982/
Award for “A Study on Drug Abuse | PICC, Manila
among the Youth in Baguio and

|___ Benguet” 7 es
(55) Award of Service to the cause of | September 20, Philippine Medicare
MEDICARE Program from 1974 to | 1980 Commission
1979.

|

In line with the strategies to solve many of the medico-social problems of the people of
Northern Luzon, Dr. Cheng has aecomplished five (5) major researches assigned to him by
Population Commission (POPCOM) Region 1, Department of Science and Technology ~
Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHARD), Department of
Health — Cordillera Administrative Region (DOH-CAR), and the Northern Luzon Reasearch
Couneit — researches that dealt on Population, F 1g, Women’s Health in the CAR,
and lodine Deficiencies in the Highlands.

A Chinese by birth, he has throughout the years considered himself a Filipino. Imbued
with an innate love for the people he has served and is still serving, he is more
many Filipinos. In his septuagenarian years, he would love that the Philippine government grant
him Philippine citizenship ~ a fitting gesture of thanks to a man from tie very p 1 has
willingly andl lovingly served throughout the years

In consideration of all the above, approval of this measup

By



UR Ne

Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Batasan Hills, Quezon City

FIFTEENTH CONGR!

st Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No. 2089

Introduced by
HONORABLE BERNARDO M. VERGARA

AN ACT GRANTI

3 PHILIPPINE CITIZENSHIP TO
MEDICAL DOCTOR CHARLES L. CHENG,

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

ION 1. Medical Doctor CHARLES L, CHENG is hereby granted Philippine
Citizenship with alt the rights, privileges and prerogatives appurtenant thereto.

Upon the taking and registration of the oath of allegiance to the Republic of the
lippines, Dr. Charles L. Cheng shall enter upon the full enjoyment of Philippine

“TION 2. This Act shail take effect upon its approval.

Approved,