Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

3764

HOUSE BILL NO.

Intraduced by Rep. Anna Katrina M. Enverga

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The bill seeks to modernize the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) hospital care
delivery system through an integrated approach and complemented by state-of-the art
technology.

The Philippine General Hospital (PGH) is a premier national tertiary hospital and a
referral center for tertiary care. Operated by UP Manila, it gives quality patient care
services to thousands of indigent patients every year from all over the country through
its various departments and specialized units. It serves about 600,000 patients every
year, mostly belongs to the low’ income social group.

With its current condition and to correspond with its modernization efforts, PGH has
to be supported to undertake a massive modernization program to better realize its
mandate of rendering quality health and medical care services to indigent patients,

The PGH modernization program involves the acquisition of state-of the- art medical
equipment, the renovation and modernization of facilities, and the implementation of
programs geared towards more effective and efficient delivery of health and medical
care services.

Henceforth, this bill aims to make health care and medical services of the PGH more
accessible, available, affordable and acceptable to our people.

In light of the foregoing, passage of this bill is urgently sought.

|. ENVERGA


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL no,_3764

Introduced by Rep. Anna Katrina M. Enverga

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE REHABILITATION AND MODERNIZATION
OF PHILIPPINE GENERAL HOSPITAL (PGH), CREATING PGH
REHABILITATION AND MODERNIZATION FUND, 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. Title - This Act shall be known as “The PGH

Rehabilitation and Modernization Act of 2016”

SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. - It is hereby declared a policy of the
State to modernize the health care delivery system to a level where it can fully
and effectively perform its constitutional mandate to protect and promote the
right to health of the people and instill health consciousness among them.

Towards this end, the State shall undertake the modernization of the
country's largest government hospital administered by the university, and

designated as the National University Hospital.

SEC. 3. Objective. - There shall be established a comprehensive
and continuing PGH Rehabilitation and Improvement Program, hereinafter

referred to as the “Program” which shall have the following objectives:


(a) undertake measures to improve the current state of the

Philippine General Hospital (PGH);

(b) provide greater awareness by the public of the systems being
offered by PGH through various programs and projects and
other related information;

(c) upgrade, modernize, acquire and procure state-of-the- art
medical equipment, the latest model of clinical apparatus,
instruments, the renovation and modernization of its facilities
and the application of the new technologies to improve the
hospital's capabilities in providing timely and reliable medical

services for its patients.

SEC. 4. Program Description - The modernization program under this
Act shall principally be a re-tooling of PGH with modern equipment and
facilities, including but not limited to, procurement of the latest and most up-to-
date medical instruments, tools and apparatus; repair major areas which need
to be rehabilitated such as patient rooms and wards, Operating and Delivery
Rooms, lavatory areas and comfort rooms, and other physical facilities; repair

and repainting of PGH buildings and its environment;

SEC. §. The PGH Rehabilitation and Modernization Council. ~
There is hereby created a Council to be known as PHG Rehabilitation
and Modernization Council which shall be headed by the Secretary of Health
as its Ex-Officio Chairman and the UP PGH Director as Co-Chairman of the
Council. Representatives of academic and medical community of UP-PGH
shall be appointed as members, and other stakeholders as maybe
determined by the Council.

The Council shall formulate and adopt a comprehensive program and

guidelines to undertake rehabilitation and improvement of PGH , inventory


of deficiencies in its hospital materials, equipments and furniture and

fixtures,

SEC. 6. The PGH Rehabilitation and Modernization Fund, ~
There is hereby created the Philippine General Hospital (PGH)
Rehabilitation and Modernization Fund which shall be used exclusively to fund

the modernization program provided under this Act.

The national government is hereby mandated to allocate and appropriate
One Billion Pesos (P1,000,000,000.00) which shall comprise the said fund, and

which thereafter include whatever funds maybe made available from.

The total amount allocated herein shall be used exclusively for the
construction, rehabilitation and/or repair, renovation of PGH, the
procurement of hospital materials, equipments, furniture and fixtures

pursuant to the program and guidelines as determined by the Council.

Provided, that all unexpected balance, after the completion of the
work and/or procurement authorized for each fiscal year, shall at once
revert to the National Treasury to the credit of the appropriation provided
for under this Act and shall not be withdrawn from it nor expended except

for the purpose indicated herein.

Such unexpended balance for any fiscal year shall be added to the
appropriation for the next fiscal year and expended accordingly.
‘The modernization Fund shall be administered in accordance with

government auditing rules and regulations and procedures.

SEC. 6. Bidding. - Any provision of law to the contrary
notwithstanding, funds allocated under the provision of this Act shall be
executed through public bidding in accordance with the existing

government rules and regulations.


SEC. 7. Annual Report - The Secretary of Health and the Director of
the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) shall submit to the Office of the President
and the Congressional Committees on Health, a quarterly report on the
progress of the modernization program for the duration of its implementation.

SEC. 8. Separability. - Should any provision of this Act be found
n shall be severed from the

unconstitutional by a court of law, such provi
remainder of this Act, and such action shall not affect the enforceability of the

remaining provisions of this Act.

SEC. 9. Effectivity Clause.- This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days
after its complete publication in any two (2) national newspapers of general

circulation.

APPROVED,