REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES )

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS )
Second Regular Session )
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

House Bill No._G&26

Introduced by Representative GERALDINE B. ROMAN

AN ACT
CONVERTING THE ORANI DISTRICT HOSPITAL IN THE MUNICIPALITY
OF ORANI, PROVINCE OF BATAAN INTO A GENERAL HOSPITAL TO BE
KNOWN AS ANTONINO “TONY” P. ROMAN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND
INCREASING ITS BED CAPACITY FROM FIFTY (50) TO TWO HUNDRED
(200) BEDS, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Republic Act No. 3935, otherwise known as “An Act Providing for the
Establishment of an Emergency Hospital in the Municipality of Orani,
Province of Bataan to be known as the Orani Emergency Hospital, and
Authorizing the Appropriation of Funds Therefor”, was enacted on 18 June
1964. The Orani Emergency Hospital was subsequently renamed “Orani
District Hospital” by virtue of Batas Pambansa Blg. 176 entitled “An Act
Changing the Name of Every Emergency Hospital to District Hospital”. On 8
April 1992, Republic Act No. 7360 increased the hospital bed capacity of
Orani District Hospital to fifty (50) beds. Since its inception, the Orani
District Hospital has continuously served, without fail, the residents not
only of the Municipality of Orani but also those coming from other
municipalities of Bataan as well.

Based on the latest census, the population of Bataan has reached
760,650 with the First District of Bataan having 344,221 and the
Municipality of Orani alone registering at 66,909. As it stands, the current
bed-population ratio for the Municipality of Orani is at 1:1,338 - a far cry
from the ideal and projected 1:800 ratio as proposed by the Department of
Health (DOH).



Article II, Sec. 15 of the 1987 Constitution provides that: “The State
shall protect and promote the right to health of the people and instill health
consciousness among them.” This is further bolstered by Art. XIII, Sec. 11
which provides in part that: “The State shall adopt an integrated and
comprehensive approach to health development which shall endeavor to
make essential goods, health and other social services available to all people
at affordable cost. xxx" Moreover, according to the World Health
Organization (WHO), to which the Philippines is a member, the right to
health includes access to timely, acceptable, and affordable health care of
appropriate quality.

This bill seeks to convert Orani District Hospital from a fifty-bed
capacity district hospital to a Level 2 General Hospital with a bed capacity
of two hundred (200). Given its strategic location, it is envisioned that the
upgraded hospital will be the premier public hospital of Bataan’s first
district. This representation believes that this legislation is long overdue
since RA 7360 was enacted twenty-five (25) years ago when the population
of Orani was significantly lower. Coincidentally, the hospital has just
marked its 45‘ anniversary.

Likewise, this bill seeks, in part, to pay homage and tribute to an
exemplary native of Orani, the late Hon. Antonino “Tony” P. Roman, by
naming the hospital after him. A public servant through and through, the
late legislator was instrumental in bringing about meaningful change in
Bataan and even in Philippines as a whole in his untarnished public service
spanning from 1978 to 2012. Hon. Antonino “Tony” P. Roman was a
staunch advocate of public health which rightly justifies that he be
immortalized by the memorial hospital in which he himself was
instrumental in transforming to what it is today.

With the underlying historical significance of this bill coupled with
the declared state policy to promote the right to health of the Filipinos, it is
imperative that this bill be enacted without delay.

Ho —

RALDINE B. ROMAN


CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES
SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
Second Regular Session

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
House Bill No._6626

Introduced by Representative GERALDINE B. ROMAN

AN ACT
CONVERTING THE ORANI DISTRICT HOSPITAL IN THE MUNICIPALITY
OF ORANI, PROVINCE OF BATAAN INTO A GENERAL HOSPITAL TO BE
KNOWN AS ANTONINO “TONY” P. ROMAN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND
INCREASING ITS BED CAPACITY FROM FIFTY (50) TO TWO HUNDRED
(200) BEDS, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFORE

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

SECTION 1. Short Title. - This Act shall be known and cited as the
‘Antonino “Tony” P. Roman Memorial Hospital Act.’

SEC. 2. The Orani District Hospital in the Province of Bataan is hereby
upgraded into a Level II General Hospital with bed capacity of two hundred
(200) beds.

SEC. 3. The Orani District Hospital shall hereafter be named as
‘Antonino “Tony” P. Roman Memorial Hospital’.

SEC. 4. The amount necessary for the upgrade, including the
acquisition of additional personnel, medical equipment and facilities, and
the construction of needed infrastructure shall be charged against the
current year’s appropriations and thereafter, such sums as may be
necessary for its continued operations shall be included in the annual

General Appropriations Act.


SEC. 5. Repealing Clause. - All laws, decrees, executive orders, rules
and regulations or other issuances or parts thereof contrary to inconsistent
with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, amended or modified
accordingly.

SEC. 6. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect immediately upon its

approval.

Approved,