EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE) 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ) 
Second Regular Session 
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SENATE
S. B. No.
1603
June 18 2020
LU date:
Introduced by SENATOR IMEE R. MARCOS
AN ACT CONVERTING THE WAO DISTRICT HOSPITAL IN THE 
MUNICIPALITY OF WAO, PROVINCE OF LANAO DEL SUR INTO A LEVEL II 
HOSPITAL FUNCTIONING AS AN ANNEX OF AMAI PAKPAK MEDICAL 
CENTER TO BE KNOWN AS THE AMAI PAKPAK MEDICAL CENTER ANNEX 
AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Article II, Section 15 of the 1987 Constitution provides that the State shall 
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 shail endeavor to make 
essential goods, health and other social service availabie 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.
The Wao District Hospital is a government hospital with a twenty-five (25) bed 
capacity. It provides medical and health care services to the residents of the 
Municipality of Wao and Its neighboring municipalities. As a consequence of the 
increasing population of the municipality, Wao District Hospital admits patients 
beyond its authorized bed capacity.
To address this problem, this bill seeks to convert the Wao District Hospital in 
the Municaplity of Wao, Province of Lanao del Sur, to a level II hospital with one 
hundred (100) beds to function as an extension hospital of the Amai Pakpak Medical 
Center in Marawi City to be known as the Amai Pakpak Medical Center Annex.
In view of the foregoing, passage of this bill earnestly sought.
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IMEE R. MARCOS


EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE) 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ) 
Second Regular Session 
)
SENATE
S. B. No. 1603
RECEIVED
WDEX
Introduced by SENATOR IMEE R. MARCOS
AN ACT CONVERTING THE WAO DISTRICT HOSPITAL IN THE 
MUNICIPALITY OF WAO, PROVINCE OF LANAO DEL SUR INTO A LEVEL II 
HOSPITAL FUNCTIONING AS AN ANNEX OF AMAI PAKPAK MEDICAL 
CENTER TO BE KNOWN AS THE AMAI PAKPAK MEDICAL CENTER ANNEX 
AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled:
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Section 1. The Wao District Hospital in Wao, Province of Lanao del Sur is hereby
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converted into a Level II hospital with one hundred (100) beds which shall function
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as an annex hospital of the Amai Pakpak Medical Center to be known as the Amai
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Pakpak Medical Center Annex.
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Sec. 2. The existing service facilities and other services of the hospital are
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hereby upgraded to conform with the bed capacity increase as provided for in Section
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1 hereof.
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The existing medical personnel shall also be correspondingly increased. The
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Department of Health, in coordination with the Department of Budget and
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Management and the Civil Service Commission, shall determine the additional piantiHa
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positions to be created and filled up in coordination with Amai Pakpak Medical Center.
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The increase in bed capacity shall be consistent with the Amai Pakpak Medical Center
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development plan.
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Sec. 3. All personnel, assets, liabilities and records of the Wao District Hospital
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are hereby transferred to and incorporated to the Amai Pakpak Medical Center Annex.
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Sec. 4. The annex hospital shall be under the supervision of the Amai Pakpak
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Medical Center in accordance with its charter in coordination with the Department of
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Health.
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Sec. 5. The Secretary of the Department of Health shall immediately Include in
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the Department's programs the operationalization of the Amai Pakpak Medical Center
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Annex, the funding of which shall be included in the annual General Appropriations
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Act.


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Sec. 6. The Secretary of Health shall issue orders, rules and circulars as may 
be necessary to carry out the implementation of this Act.
Sec. 7. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the 
Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.
Approved,