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Eighteenth Congress

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First Regular Session &
6963
HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by HON. MA. LOURDES T. ARROYO

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to re-nationalize IGNACIO L. ARROYO SR. MEMORIAL
DISTRICT HOSPITAL (ILASMDH) situated in the Municipality of Isabela, Negros
Occidental from the local government unit (LGU) to the national government. This is in
pursuant to the Constitutional mandate of the State to protect and promote the right to health
of every Filipino and to make essential goods, health and other social services available to
all people at an affordable cost.

ILASMDH jis a twenty-five (25) bed infirmary health facility situated in the
Municipality of Isabela in Negros Occidental. Given its strategic location, ILASMDH
provide health care services catering not only the adjacent municipalities in the Fifth District
of Negros Occidental but also to certain parts of Negros Oriental.

ILASMDH started as a semi-private Puericulture Center functioning mainly as
Maternity and Children’s Clinic in the 1950s. In July 1, 1969, it leveled up into a 25-bed
primary level hospital under the name of Isabela District Hospital covered by the national
government and subsequently became a secondary level district hospital in the year 1989.

‘The hospital was then devolved to the Provincial government of Negros Occidental
in 1993 upon the enactment of the Local Government Code to decentralize essential public
services such as health and social services. It was in the year 2004 when the hospital was
named after the late Ignacio L. Arroyo Sr. pursuant to Resolution No. 0596 (series of 2004)
approving the Deed of Donation of the new hospital building which was entered into by and
between the Province of Negros Occidental and Municipality of Isabela and was approved
by the Department of Health on July 2, 2007.

Since the decentralization of the health services, ILASMDH has become dependent
on the share of the local government units from the forty percent (40%) intemal revenue
allotment from the national government. It is also worthy to note that that the internal
revenue allocation of the LGUs are still apportioned to different priority programs of the
LGU.

At present, the hospital has only three (3) doctors requiring each doctor to go on a
24-hour duties nine times a month. Unfortunately, it has been downgraded from Level 1 to


Infirmary level and continuous to exceed its standard bed capacity due to the volume of
patients. The hospital has been struggling to request for additional doctors and medical staff
as well as the upgrade of its facilities duc to the insufficient budget allocation of the LGU.

ILASMDH has been catering health services mostly to indigent patients. In 2016, it
served 3,262 indigent patients and 1,183 of them were treated for the period January to June
2019. At present, the hospital’s authorized bed capacity and actual hospital bed occupancy
rate is mismatched.

Reverting back the Ignacio Lacson Arroyo Sr. Medical District Hospital from the
local government unit to the national government will pave the way for the development of
the hospital in order to continuously provide effective and efficient health care services.

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

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Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

Eighteenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No._6963_

Introduced by HON. MA. LOURDES T. ARROYO

AN ACT
RE-NATIONALIZING THE IGNACIO LACSON ARROYO SR.
MEMORIAL DISTRICT HOSPITAL LOCATED IN THE MUNICPALITY
OF ISABELA, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, PLACING UNDER THE
DIRECT CONTROL, MANAGEMENT, AND SUPERVISION OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, 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. Re-nationalization of Ignacio Lacson Arroyo Sr. Memorial District
Hospital. ~ The Ignacio Lacson Arroyo Sr. Memorial District Hospital (LASMDH) in the
province of Negros Occidental is hereby re-nationalized, increasing its operating fund;
upgrading its medical equipment and facilities; and constructing the needed infrastructure
under the direct control, management, and supervision of the Department of Health

SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy.- \t is the declared policy of the State that it shall
protect and promote the right to health of the people and instill health consciousness among
them. Further, the State shall adopt an integrated and comprehensive approach to health
development which shall endeavor to make essential goods, health and other social services
to all the people at affordable cost.

SEC. 3. Objective. The objective of this Act is to adopt an integrated and
comprehensive quality health services that will cater patients in the five (5) Municipalities
and one (1) City in the Fifth District of Negros Occidental as well as its neighboring
municipalities

SEC. 4. Implementing Rules and Regulation.- For the purpose of compliance of the
‘Act, the Department of Health shall promulgate the necessary rules and regulations for the
effective implementation of this Act.

SEC. 5. Appropriations.~ The amount necessary for the effective implementation of
this Act shall be charged against the current year’s appropriations for the organizational


adjustment fund. Thereafter, such amount as may be necessary for its continued operation
shall be included in the Annual General Appropriations Act.

SEC. 6. Separability Clause.- If any portion or provision of this Act is declared
unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act or any provision not affected thereby shall remain
in force and effect.

SEC. 7. Repealing Clause.- All laws, executive orders, decrees, issuances, rules and
regulations or parts thereof inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed
or modified accordingly.

SEC. 8. Effectivity.- This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication
in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,