Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

1799

HOUSE BILL NO.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to convert the Talisay District Hospital in Talisay C ity, Province of Cebu
into a medical center to be known as the Cebu South Medical Center. a tertiary hospital with
additional specialties as Trauma, Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, and Sports Medicine
center in the Visayas under the supervision of the Department of Health

Section 11 of Article XIII of the 1987 Constitution provides:

“SEC. 11. The State shali adopt an imegrated and comprehensive
approach to health development which shall endeavor to make essential goouk,
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. The State shall endeavor to provide free medical
care to paupers

Initially, the hospital was envisioned to provide health services to the twenty-two
densely populated barangays of Talisay City, the neighboring Municipality of Mingianilla
and the City of Naga, which are part of the First District of the Province of Cebu, and also
the accessible barangays of Toledo City. However, patients from other neighboring
municipalities and cities of Cebu and provinces of Negros and Bohol, and sometimes
patients from as far as Luzon and Mindanao, are also seeking medical aitention in Talisay

- District Hospital

In consideration of its strategic location, and being the favored destination of
various sports enthusiasts, the hospital serves as the immediate health facility for trauma
sports injuries, vehicular accidents and the like. Due to inadequate resources. however
such as human resource complement, medical equipment and other facilities, about 1.119
trauma cases were referred to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City in
2011 and 2,083 trauma cases from January | to June 30, 2012.

In the Philippine Hospital Development Plan of the Department of Health. the
Talisay District Hospital is envisioned to become a tertiary hospital with additional
specialties as Trauma, Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, and Sports Medicine Cente
in the Visayas

‘The proposed Cebu South Medical Center as a tertiary hospital can provide bette:
health services that will greatly benefit the people, not only in Talisay City but also of the
neighboring areas of the southern part of the Province of Cebu and other areas in the
Visayas. The hospital will be able to address the health needs of the most marginalized
sector of the community

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

EDUARDO R GULLAS


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
: Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No.1799

Introduced by Honorable EDUARDO R. GULLAS.

AN ACT
RENAMING THE TALISAY DISTRICT HOSPITAL IN TALISAY CITY, PROVINCE OF
CEBU, INTO CEBU SOUTH MEDICAL CENTER, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS
-THEREFOR, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7799, ENTITLED
“ AN ACT ESTABLISHING A DISTRICT HOSPITAL IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF
-TALISAY, PROVINCE OF CEBU, TO BE KNOWN AS THE TALISAY DISTRICT
HOSPITAL, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR”

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

SECTION 1. The Talisay District Hospital in Talisay City, Province of Cebu, is hereby
“renamed as Cebu South Medical center.

SEC. 2. The existing service capability, professional health care services and medical
complement of Cebu South Medical Center is hereby upgraded and increased to correspond with
“the requirements of the medical center

SEC. 3. The increase in the service capability, health care services and bed capacity shail
conform to the hospital development plan of the medical center

SEC. 4. The secretary of Health shall immediately include in the Department's programs
the implementation of this Act, the funding of which shall be included in the general
Appropriations Act

SEC. 5. Section 1 of Republic Act No. 7799, entitled “An Act Establishing a District
“Hospital in the Municipality of Talisay, Province of Cebu, to be Known as the Talisay District
Hospital, and Appropriating Funds Therefor” is hereby amended accordingly

SEC. 6. Within ninety (90) days from the approval of this Act. the Secretary of Health shall.
in consultation with the Secretary of Budget and Management, promulgate the necessary rules and
regulations for the effective 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,