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HOUSE BILL Nt 906

Introduced by HON. JOHN TRACY F. CAGAS

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING A TWENTY-FIVE (25) BED CAPACITY IN THE CITY OF DIGOS,
PROVINCE OF DAVAO DEL SUR, TO BE KNOWN AS THE DIGOS CITY
DISTRICT HOSPITAL, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Article XVIII, Sec. 11, 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.”

The City of Digos has a total land area of two-hundred, eighty seven square kilometers
(287 km?) and twenty-six barangays, it is the biggest contributor to the total population of the
province of Davao del Sur. Establishing a district hospital in the City of Digos which aims to
focus on kidney-related diseases will give access to a systematic healthcare facility and enhance
the capability of the provincial hospital not only for the marginalized and indigent people of
Digos but also of nearby municipalities, specifically Sta. Cruz, Hagonoy, Bansalan, and
Matanao and other provinces. These municipalities are the most populous in the province of
Davao del Sur and shall ensure the accessibility of free healthcare services to its people with a
total population of 281,274 (PSA,2020). According to the same census, the population of the
province of Davao del Sur is 680,481 who can all similarly avail of the services of health
institutions.

With its population growth and its location in the province, the demand and need for
basic social services like health institutions also increases. The provincial hospital and its
personnel has been serving the people of Davao del Sur and establishing a district hospital will
augment the capacity of both the hospital and its health personnel, ensuring an effective and
efficient healthcare system in the province. This bill has been filed during the 19" Congress but was
left pending with the committee.

In view of the foregoing, the immediate passage of this meast ly sought.

JOHN '. CAGAS


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

TWENTIETH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 3 06

Introduced by HON. JOHN TRACY F. CAGAS.

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING A TWENTY-FIVE (25) BED CAPACITY IN THE CITY OF DIGOS,
PROVINCE OF DAVAO DEL SUR, TO BE KNOWN AS THE DIGOS CITY
DISTRICT HOSPITAL, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

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

SECTION 1. There shall be established in the City of Digos, Province of Davao del Sur, a
seventy-five(25) bed capacity hospital to be known as the Digos City District Hospital, which
shall be under the direct control and supervision of the Department of Health (DOH).

SEC. 2. Any future increase in bed capacity, healthcare facilities, service capability and human
resource complement shalll be based on the hospital development plan that shall be prepared by
the DOH.

SEC. 3. The Department of Health shall include in its program the funding for the
implementation and operation of the Digos City District Hospital in the annual General
Appropriations Act.

SEC. 4. If any provision of this Act shall be held unconstitutional or invalid, the other
provisions not otherwise affected shall remain in full force and effect.

SEC. 5. All laws, decrees, executive orders, proclamations, rules and regulations, and other
issuances, or parts thereof which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby
repealed or modified accordingly.

SEC. 6. Within sixty(60) days from the effectivity of this act, the Secretary of Health shall
promulgate the necessary rules and regulations for the implementation of this act.

SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days following its publication in the Official
Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation

Approved,