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

Eighteenth Congress
First Regular Session

‘HOUSE BILLNo, 2478

Introduced by
Honorable DAVID C. SUAREZ and
Honorable ANNA MARIE VILLARAZA-SUAREZ

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

Department of Health.

Section 11, Article XIII of the Constitution provides that “The State shall adopt
an integrated and comprehensive approach to health development that shall
endeavor to make essential goods, health and other social services available to all
people at all cost.”

Furthermore, Section 15, Article Il of the Constitution provides that “The State
shall protect and promote the right to health of the people and instill consciousness
among them.”

Hence, itis then the obligation of the State to enhance the delivery of health
services to the people.

The Quezon Medical Center caters to the medical and health needs of the
People in the Province of Quezon. Converting the hospital to a tertiary hospital with
an increased bed capacity will provide better health services. Upgraded and efficient
facilities which will emphasize preventive care will be readily available for the
Patients.


Last year (2018), the Provincial Government of Quezon Province provided
medical equipment and facilities worth P30 million to Quezon Medical Center (QMC)
to accommodate the influx of patients that has surpassed the hospital bed capacity
imposed by the Department of Health (DOH).

The Quezon Medical Center only has 200-bed capacity but has 600 daily
occupancies as of 2018. The OB ward has more than 200 patients already.

Increasing its bed capacity to seven hundred (700) beds will greatly benefit
the people of the province and nearby areas considering the additional number of
patients that the hospital will be able to accommodate. It will also result in a
decrease in the mortali

ing, early passage of the bill is urgently sought.

ANNA MARIE VILLAI SUAREZ

ALONA Partylist


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

Eighteenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 2478

Introduced by
Honorable DAVID C. SUAREZ and
Honorable ANNA MARIE VILLARAZA-SUAREZ

AN ACT CONVERTING THE QUEZON MEDICAL CENTER
HOSPITAL FROM SECONDARY TO TERTIARY LEVEL HOSPITAL AND
REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER UNDER THE FULL ADMINISTRATIVE
AND TECHNICAL SUPERVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH,
INCREASING ITS BED CAPACITY FROM TWO HUNDRED (200) TO
‘SEVEN HUNDRED (700), AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

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

SECTION 1. The Quezon Medical Center is hereby converted from secondary
to tertiary hospital and regional training center doctors, nurses, medical
technologists, midwives, radiologists, pharmacists and allied professions under the
direct supervision of the Department of Health (DOH).

SECTION 2. The authorized bed capacity of the Quezon Medical Center in
the Province of Quezon is hereby increased from two hundred (200) to seven
hundred (700) beds.

SECTION 3. The existing hospital facilities and professional health care
services of the Quezon Medical Center are hereby upgraded and increased
commensurate to the increase in bed capacity. The number of medical personnel
shall be correspondingly increased.


SECTION 4. The Provincial Government of Quezon shall continue to provide
the necessary funds to support the increase in bed capacity of the Quezon Medical
Center Hospital and the corresponding upgrading of its facilities and services until
such time that the DOH shall have fully funded the capital outlay requirements of the
hospital and its operating expenses in the annual General Appropriations Act.

SECTION 5. Within sixty (60) days, the Secretary of Health shall promulgate
the necessary rules and regulations for the effective impiementation of this Act.

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in
the Official Gazette or in any newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,