SIXTEENTH CONGRESS )
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES )
FIRST REGULAR SESSION }

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Introduced by Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez
Representative Maximo B. Rodriguez, Jr.

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House Bill No.
EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill was originally filed in the Fourteenth Congress and was again re-filed in
the Fifteenth Congress as House Bill No. 52. During the Fifteenth Congress, this bil
was approved by the Committee on Health and the Committee on Appropriations. It was
subsequently approved by the House of Representatives on August 6. 2012 and
transmitted to the Senate on August 16, 2012 where it was not acted upon.

The Constitution states that it is the policy of the State to protect and promote the
right to health of the people and instill health consciousness among them. Further, it is
mandated 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. More importantly, there
shall be priority for the needs of the underprivileged sick, elderly, disabled, women, and
children

Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC) is a government hospital with a 300-
bed capacity. It has been in existence for 90 years and has achieved great
accomplishments in terms of infrastructure projects, procurement of hospital facilities,
training and development of medical officers and personnel

NMMC withstood its loyalty in providing a healthy environment not only to the
people of Cagayan de Oro City but aiso to the entire region. in fact, since 2003, it has
been admitting patients beyond its bed capacity. At present it serves around 600
patients a day. Hence, to further enhance its capacity of promoting public health and to
cater medical assistance to indigent patients, there is a need to increase its bed
capacity from 300 to 600

In view thereof. immediate approval of this Bill is sought

MAXHAO B. or


SIXTEENTH CONGRESS )
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES )
FIRST REGULAR SESSION )

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Introduced by Representative Rufus B, Rodriguez and
Representative Maximo B. Rodriguez, Jr.

House Bill No. 3t

AN ACT
INCREASING THE BED CAPACITY OF THE NORTHERN MINDANAO MEDICAL
CENTER IN CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE REPUBLIC
ACT NO. 7938, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES

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

SECTION 1. Section 2 of Republic Act No. 7938 is hereby amended to read as follows:

“SEC. 2. The hospital facilities of the Northern Mindanao
Medical Center shall be upgraded and increased, consistent
with the requirements of modern medical technology and its
status as a medical center. Accordingly, its bed capacity
shall be increased from [two hundred (200) to] three
hundred (300) beds TO SIX HUNDRED (600) BEDS."

SEC. 2. Section 3 of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows:

“SEC.3. The number of medical _ personnel,
PERSONNEL SERVICES AND MAINTENANCE AND
OTHER OPERATING EXPENSES of the Northern
Mindanao Medical Center shail correspondingly be
increased THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, IN
COORDINATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET
AND MANAGEMENT SHALL DETERMINE THE
ADDITIONAL PLANTILLA POSITIONS TO BE CREATED
PURSUANT TO THIS ACT.”


SEC. 3. There is hereby added a new Section 4 to read as follows

“SEC. 4. THE INCREASE IN BED CAPACITY OF THE
NORTHERN MINDANAO MEDICAL CENTER FROM
THREE (300) TO SIX HUNDRED (600) BEDS SHALL BE
IMPLEMENTED FOR A PERIOD OF NOT MORE THAN
THREE (3) YEARS FROM THE APPROVAL OF THIS
ACT.”

SEC. 4. Section 4 of the same Act is hereby renumbered as Section 5 and amended to
read as follows:

“SEC. [4]5. [The amount necessary to carry out the
Provisions of this Act shall be included in the General
Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment into
law and thereafter] THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH
SHALL IMMEDIATELY INCLUDE IN THE DEPARTMENT'S.
PROGRAMS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS ACT, THE
FUNDING OF WHICH SHALL BE INCLUDED IN THE
ANNUAL GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT.”

SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in two (2)
newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,