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Seventeenth Congress
Second Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 7027

Introduced by Representative Peter “Sr. Pedro” M. Unabia

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to convert the Medina Hospital in the Municipality of
Medina, Province of Misamis Oriental, to an extension hospital of the Northern
Mindanao Medical Center in Cagayan de Oro City to be known as the Northern
Mindanao Medical Center Extension Hospital.

‘The Medina Hospital was established in 1976 through the auspices of the
Puericulture Center and Women’s Club, an organization founded by the mother
of then Vice President Emmanuel Pelaez. It provided for matemity and child
assistance for the people of Medina. The hospital was supported by the provincial
government of Misamis Oriental through a monthly subsidy which covered the
salaries of the medical staff and the maintenance of the hospital.

Unfortunately, the subsidy stopped in 2005. For five years, the hospital
was closed thus depriving the people of Medina the needed mother and child
health protection. This prompted the officers of the club to donate the hospital to
the Department of Health. During the administration of President Benigno S.
Aquino III, five million pesos was allocated for the completion of the Medina
Hospital, seventeen million pesos for the facilities, and six million pesos for the
maintenance and operating expenses of the hospital.

At present, the Medina Hospital is a 25-bed capacity hospital which serves
as a satellite hospital of the Northern Mindanao Medical Center. It provides for
preventive, curative and rehabilitative

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services to the residents of the Municipality of Medina and the neighboring
town of Talisayan, Gingoog City and other municipalities of Misamis Oriental.

To ensure the funding of the hospital and likewise guarantee uninterrupted
health services to the people of Medina and the nearby municipalities, approval
of this bill is highly appreciated.

RO” M. UNABIA


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Republic of the Philippines

House of Representatives
Quezon City, Metro Manila

Seventeenth Congress
Second Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No__7027

Introduced by Representative Peter “Sr. Pedro” M. Unabia

AN ACT
CONVERTING THE MEDINA HOSPITAL IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF
MEDINA, PROVINCE OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL TO AN EXTENSION
HOSPITAL OF THE NORTHERN MINDANAO MEDICAL CENTER,
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, TO BE KNOWN AS THE NORTHERN
MINDANAO MEDICAL CENTER EXTENSION HOSPITAL

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

SECTION 1. The Medina Hospital in the Municipality of Medina,
Province of Misamis Oriental, is converted to an extension hospital of the
Northern Mindanao Medical Center in Cagayan de Oro City to be known as the

Northern Mindanao Medical Center Extension Hospital.

SEC. 2. The Northern Mindanao Medical Center Extension Hospital shall
primarily provide preventive, curative and rehabilitative services to the people of

Medina and the nearby municipalities of Misamis Oriental.


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SEC. 3. All the assets, fixed and movable, and records of Medina Hospital,
as well as its liabilities or obligations, are hereby transferred to the Northern

Mindanao Medical Center Extension Hospital.

SEC. 4. The Department of Health shall determine the staffing pattern as
approved by the Department of Budget and Management, appoint the officials
and employees of the Northern Mindanao Medical Center Extension Hospital,
subject to civil service laws, rules and regulations, prescribe their duties and fix
their compensation in accordance with the provisions of Republic Act No. 6758,

otherwise known as the “Compensation and Position Classification Act of 1989.”

SEC. 5. All accounts and expenses of the Northern Mindanao Medical
Center Extension Hospital shall be audited by the Commission on Audit or its

duly authorized representative.

SEC. 6. All parcels of land occupied by the Medina Hospital are hereby
declared to be properties of Northem Mindanao Medical Center Extension

Hospital and shall be titled under that name.

SEC. 7. The Secretary of Health shall immediately include in the
Department’s program the operationalization of the Northern Mindanao Medical
Center Extension Hospital, the initial funding of which shall be charged against

the current year’s appropriations for the Department of Health. Thereafter, the


amount necessary for the continued operation of the hospital shalll be included in

the annual General Appropriations Act.

SEC. 8. The Secretary of Health shall issue the necessary rules and

regulations for the effective implementation of this Act.

SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in

the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,