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SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS <= REGISTRATION UIT
First Regular Session BILLS AND INDEX SERVICE

House Bul No.L225

Introduced by Honorable REYNALDO V. UMALI

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The most important role of hospitals and health institutions is to provide
adequate and competent medical services to the people. The reality however, is that
it is difficult to secure medical services from big private hospitals that often charge
medical fees that the ordinary Filipino cannot afford, leaving him no other option
but to rely on the medical services provided by the government hospitals. Sadly,
perennial budgetary problems plague government hospitals and prevent them from
filling this great void in the Filipinos’ health care needs.

‘The Roxas District Hospital (Roxas General Hospital) was created by
Republic Act No, 1900 thru the bill introduce by the late Congressman Jose Leido
Jr. in 1969 and at the same year a hospital building was erected with an initial cost
of Php 100,000.00 on a one hectare lot at Odiong, Roxas, Oriental Mindoro donated
by the heirs of Lucio Suarez Sr.

On January 21, 1995, Republic Act 7857 - An Act increasing the bed
capacity of the Roxas District Hospital from twenty-five (25) beds to fifty (50) beds
was signed into law by then President Fidel V. Ramos.

However, the steady growth of medical cases, necessitates the need for the
government to upgrade the bed capacity of the Roxas District Hospital. To realize
this goal, the improvement of this government hospital is necessary. This bill aims
to provide the Roxas District Hospital with an increased bed capacity.

This legislation aims to create a more responsive health institution that will
address the pressing medical needs of the people, more particularly the poor and
the marginalized of society.

In view of the foregoing, immediate approval of this bill is earnestly sought.

Second District, Province of Oriental Mindoro


Republic of the Philippines

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

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House Bill No.

Introduced by Honorable REYNALDO V. UMALI

AN ACT INCREASING THE BED CAPACITY OF THE ROXAS DISTRICT
HOSPITAL IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF ROXAS, PROVINCE OF ORIENTAL
MINDORO, FROM FIFTY TO TWO HUNDRED BEDS, AND APPROPRIATING
FUNDS THEREFOR, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7857

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

SECTION 1. Section 1 of R.A. 7857 is hereby amended, to read as follows:

“Section 1. The bed capacity of the Roxas District Hospital in the
Municipality of Roxas, Province of Oriental Mindoro, is hereby increased from
[twenty-five (25) to fifty (50) beds] FIFTY (50) TO TWO HUNDRED (200) BEDS.
THE INCREASE IN BED CAPACITY SHALL BE IMPLEMENTED FOR A PERIOD
OF NOT MORE THAN TWO (2) YEARS FROM THE APPROVAL OF THIS ACT.”

SECTION 2. Appropriation. The amount necessary to carry out the provisions of
this Act shall be included in the General Appropriation Act of the year following its
enactment.

SECTION 3. Separability Clause. Should any provision herein be declared
unconstitutional, the same shall not affect the validity of other provisions of this
Act.

SECTION 4. Repealing Clause. - All laws, decrees, orders, rules and regulations
or parts thereof inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed or amended
accordingly.

SECTION 5. Rffectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its

publication in the Official Gazette or in two (2) national newspapers of general
circulation.

Approved.