Republic ofthe Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

FIFTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

1234

House Bill No.

Introduced by Honorable Joseph Gilbert F. Violago

EXPLANATORY NOTE

To achieve economic growth and development in the’ country, our government should put
‘emphasis on the provision of basic health services to our people. For how could a government
implement its programs and projects if its working force, the people, are physically weak and in dire
need of medical attention? Aside from health workers, the government has rural health doctors to
ensure that basic health services are being delivered fo our people especially in the rural areas.
But being government employees, our rural health doctors receive salaries far lower than their
other contemporaries in the private sectors. There is a need therefore to provide legislation giving
incentives to rural health unit doctors, they who provide vital health services to our people, to
promote their rights and welfare and enhance their sense of work and dignity

Henee, to give due respect and appreciation to the dedicated and unsellish services of the
front-liners in delivering vital health care services fo our countrymen, itis necessary that this Bil is
immediately enacted into law.

A ptSDZ*

JOSEPH F. VIOLAGO


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Quezon City

FIFTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

House BillNo,__ 1234

Introduced by Honorable Joseph Gilbert F. Violago

AN ACT
GRANTING INCENTIVES AND OTHER BENEFITS TO RURAL HEALTH UNIT DOCTORS AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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

SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as the ‘Rural Health Unit Doctors Incentives and
other Benefits Act of 2010.”

SEC. 2. The State shall protect and promote the right to health of people and instill health
consciousness among them by giving each individual unimpaired access to health and information
services. Towards this end, this Act shall provide incentives and benefits to rural health unit
doctors, the front-liners in the promotion, protection and maintenance of health in the rural areas.

SEC. 3. Definition. ~ The term “rural health doctor’ refers to a licensed doctor of medicine
employed by the municipal govemment who is assigned to ‘actively or regularly perform his official
duties in a rural area or remote community.

‘SEC. 4. Incentives and benefits — in recognition of their services, rural unit health doctors
shall in addition to other incentives and benefits granted under existing laws, be entitled to the
following:

(a) hazard allowance in an amount o be determined by the local health board of the local
government unit concemed;

(b) Subsistence allowance equivalent to the meals they take in the course of their duty which
shall be computed in accordance with prevailing circumstances as determined by the local
government unit concerned;

(c) Scholarships in the form of tuition fees and stipends

‘SEC. 5. All laws, decrees, rules and regulations and executive orders contrary to and
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, or modified accordingly.

‘SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved