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House Bil No, 1234

Introduced by Representative Jefferson F. Khonghun

AN ACT ESTABLISHING MULTI-SPECIALTY HOSPITAL IN DIFFERENT
REGIONS TO FACILITATE ACCESS TO SPECIALIZED CARE AND
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

EXPLANATION NOTE

An ideal healthcare consists of quality, affordability and accessibility; Hence, it is
important that we look at the ways in which it can be made accessible for the
constituents we serve.

President Ferdinand “Bongbong Marcus Jr’s initiative to strengthen the healthcare
system capacity, and to build more specialty hospitals in tother parts of the country,
was mentioned during hid first state of the nation address (SONA). According to
him, one of the cornerstones of a strong healthcare system is the provision of
‘competent and efficient medical professionals.

With this mandate, we should exert all efforts to improve the welfare of our doctors,
nurses, and other medical frontliners ang to build specialty hospitals all over the
country. Its is imperative that patients seeking medical care needs not travel all the
ways to Metro Manila to seek assistance from multispecialty hospital, including the
Philippine Heart Center, the Lung Center of the Philippines ang the National Kidney
Transplant Institute. Our people from far-flung provinces will greatly benefit from
the establishment of multi- specialty hospitals within region.

Senate Bill (SB) 93 intended to provide all Filipinos with easier access to specializes
medical care, giving priority to those residing in far-flung regions. Under the said
bill, four Metro Manila specialty hospital must establish satellite hospital in
identified regions to operate and manage according to their respective charters.


Akin to SB 93, this proposed legislation seeks to establish specialty hospital across
the regions of the Philippines for ease of access to patients located therein This is
not to discredit the efficacy of hospital and clinics, as well as doctor stationed
outside of Metro Manila, but the stigma lingers on, it is a reality that must be over
turned by them.

In the meantime, this bill unloads the burden on the part of our already ailing
citizens: that instead of having to travel to specialty hospitals in Metro Manila and
neighboring cities and municipalities, our citizens may avail of efficient and
competent treatments of specialty hospitals that could potentially be established in
their regions.

Moreover, this bill seeks to invite back our nurses and medical practitioners who
are based abroad, With the projected presence of these regional specialty hospitals,
it is positive that all of our citizens will receive the same efficient and competent
treatments that they provided to their foreign patients. In the same vein, the country
has lost a lot fits health workers due to the COVID 19 pandemic. It is for this reason
that this proposed legislation stands as an encouragement to our educational
institutions to produce more health care workers and medical practitioners for they
may soon be housed under the said regional specialty hospitals.

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



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Republic of the Philippines

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

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‘TWENTIETH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

House Bill No. 1234

Introduced by Representative Jefferson F. Khonghun

AN ACT ESTABLISHING MULTI-SPECIALTY HOSPITAL IN DIFFERENT

REGIONS TO FACILITATE ACCESS TO SPECIALIZED CARE AND
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

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

SECTION 1. Short Title - This Act shall be known as the Multi- specialty
Hospitals in Different Regions Act of 2022.”

SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy - Well enshrined in the 1987 Constitution
is the mandate of the state to promote the right to

Health of the people and instill health consciousness among them. In doing so,
the state shall adopt an integrated and comprehensive approach to health
development by providing them specialized health services, which shall be
available and accessible to all people at affordable cost. There shall be priority for
the needs of the underprivileged sick, disabled, women and children

SECTION 3. Establishment of multi-Specialty hospital in Different Regions.
‘There shall be established a multi-specialty hospital in every region of the
Philippines, which shall be under the direct control and supervision od the
Department of Health (DOH)

The following specialty hospitals are mandated to establish a multi-specialty
hospital in every identified to be managed and operated pursuant to their
respective charters:

1. Philippine Heart Center created under Presidential Decree No. 673
2. National Kidney and Transplant Institute created under Presidential 14
Decree No. 1832

3. Lung center of The Philippine created under Presidential Decree No. 16
1823 and

Philippine Children’s Medical Center created under Presidential Decree No.
1631

Provided, that this specialty hospital must formulated prioritization plans for

4.


the purpose of implementing this Act, giving to provinces which are
geographically isolates from their regions tertiary care hospital, or those without
a regional care hospital.

Nothing in this Act shall be construed as restricting the right of the
Department of Health (DOH) to establish specialty hospitals or specialized units
in DOH Hospitals in different regions.

SECTION 4. Period of Implementation - The establishment of at least one
(1) multi-specialty hospitals in identified regions shall be completed over a period
of Five (5) years: Provided, that payments for amortization of outstanding multi-
year contract obligation incurred under this Act may extend beyond this period.

SECTION 5. Report TO Congress- Within One Hundred Twenty (120) days from
the effectivity of this Act, the executive directors of the specialty hospitals shall
present a report to congress identifying the regions where the multi-special
hospitals will be constructed and detailing the construction plan od said multi-
specialty hospital, together with the hospital development plan.

For this purpose, the Congress shall establish a Joint Congressional
Oversight Committee composed of five (5) members of each house to be appointed
by the Senate President and the House Speaker, respectively, to determine
whether such acts, orders rules and regulation within the restrictions provided
herein.

SECTION 6. Sunset Review _ as the need arises or within five (5) years after its
effectivity, the Congressional Oversight Committee shall conduct a systematic
evaluation of the accomplishment and impact of this Act for purposes of
determining remedial legislation.

SECTION 7. Appropriations - The amount necessary for the implementation of
the provisions of this Act shall from the current years budget of the specialty
hospitals enumerated in Section 3 of this Act. Thereafter, such sums as may be
necessary for the continued implementation of this Act shall be incorporated in
the annual General Appropriation Act.

SECTION 8. Implementing Rules and regulations ~ Within ninety (90) days from
the effectively of this Act, The Department of Health, in coordination with the
specialty hospitals enumerated in Section 3 hereof, shall promulgate the rules
and regulations implementing the provisions of this Act.


SECTION 9. Separability Clause _ Should any part of this Act be declared
unconstitutional or invalid or invalid, other provisions hereof that are not affected
thereby shall continue to be in full force and effect.

SECTION 10. Repealing Clause - All Laws, decrees executive orders,
proclamation, rules and regulation, and issuances, or parts thereof which are
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed, amended or
modified accordingly.

SECTION 11. Effectively - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days
following the completion of this publication in the Official Gazette or in newspaper
of general circulation.

Approved,