NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
Second Regular Session 
House Bill No. ___________ 
Introduced by Rep. Munir N. Arbison, Jr. 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
“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 underprivileged sick, elderly, 
disabled, women, and children.” 
It is in the light of the above Constitutional provision that this bill seeks to establish and 
convert the existing newly constructed hospital building funded under the priority project of former 
Rep. Munir M. Arbison, in Brgy. Tandu Bato, Municipality of Luuk, 2nd District of Sulu into Sulu 
Sanitarium Luuk Annex. 
Sulu Sanitarium is the only DOH-retained hospital in Sulu, located in Jolo - the capital of 
Sulu and within the First Legislative District of Sulu. For years, Sulu Sanitarium has been 
performing its dual expanded role of providing services to the general public and custodial care to 
its leprosy patients per DOH Administrative Order No. 2005-0013. Under the said Administrative 
Order, Sulu Sanitarium has made available Five Major Service Department namely: Medical, 
Surgical, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Family Medicine and Pediatrics to the general public. Thus, 
it is now Sulu Sanitarium and General Hospital.  
The Municipality of Luuk, on the other hand, is within the 2nd Legislative District of Sulu 
and is geographically located approximately 60-70 kilometers away from Jolo, Sulu.  Hence, the 
establishment of Sulu Sanitarium Annex in the Municipality of Luuk will not only alleviate the 
compounding woes of the residents therein brought by the financial burdens of travel and 
hospitalization. It will further give them a sense of psychological ease knowing fully well that 
albeit their remote geographical location, medical service is accessible within the district as they 
no longer have to endure and make a more than an hour journey to Jolo, especially in times of 
emergencies. Furthermore, The Sulu Sanitarium Luuk Annex will also be able to provide 
sufficient, adequate and affordable healthcare services to the residents of nearby and neighboring 
municipalities. 
This legislative measure is also in line with the policy of the State to secure the well-being 
of the people by providing them efficient health services. 
In view of the foregoing, approval of this bill is earnestly sought. 
MUNIR N. ARBISON, JR. 
2ND District, Sulu 
January 16, 2024
1:54 pm
9788


NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
Second Regular Session 
House Bill No. ___________ 
Introduced by Rep. Munir N. Arbison, Jr. 
AN 
ACT 
ESTABLISHING 
AND 
CONVERTING 
THE 
EXISTING 
NEWLY 
CONSTRUCTED HOSPITAL BUILDING IN BRGY. TANDU-BATO MUNICIPALITY OF 
LUUK, 2ND DISTRICT OF SULU TO SULU SANITARIUM LUUK ANNEX AND 
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled: 
SECTION 1. There shall be established an Annex hospital of the Sulu Sanitarium in the 
existing newly constructed Hospital Building funded under the priority project of former Rep. 
Munir M. Arbison, in Brgy. Tandu-Bato, Municipality of Luuk, Sulu, to be known as Sulu 
Sanitarium- Luuk Annex which shall be under the supervision of the Department of Health. 
SECTION 2. The Secretary of Health shall immediately include in the program of the 
Department of Health the implementation this Act and the operationalization of the Sulu 
Sanitarium – Luuk Annex, the funding of which shall be included in the annual General 
Appropriations Act. 
SECTION 3. 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. 
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official 
Gazette or in any newspaper of general circulation. 
Approved, 
9788


NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
Second Regular Session 
House Bill No. ___________ 
Introduced by Rep. Munir N. Arbison, Jr. 
Sulu Sanitarium 
Brgy. Tandu Bato, Municipality of Luuk, 2nd District of Sulu