FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
S E N A T E  
Senate Bill No. 9 7 2  
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INTRODUCED BY SEN. MANNY VILLAR 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Nosocomial infections, which are infections acquired by a patient in a 
health care facility that are unrelated to the patient's original condition, remain 
a significant challenge to health care facilities. 
Epidemiological studies have estimated that one-third of nosocomial 
infections can be prevented by well-organized infection control programs. 
Acute care hospitals in the country should be required to report 
information about nosocomial infections to the Department of Health in order 
to provide the department with data that are essential to developing 
appropriate measures to enhance the quality of hospital patient care by 
ensuring the use of appropriate infection-control processes 
This information should also be made available to the general public as 
a means of providing an additional incentive to hospitals to improve their 
infection-control efforts, and to enable patients, employers and health insurers 
to compare hospitals with respect to these data. 
The bill likewise provides that the Secretary is to prescribe, by 
regulation, requirements to be adopted by each general hospital with regard to 
furnishing the required information. 
MANNYVI LAR ? 


FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
S E N A T E  
Senate Bill No. 9 7 2  
INTRODUCED BY SEN. MANNY VILLAR 
AN ACT 
REQUIRING HOSPITALS TO REPORT INFORMATION ABOUT 
PATIENT INFECTIONS 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenfafives of fhe 
Philippines in Congress assembled: 
SECTION I. 
Title- This Act shall be known and cited as the"Hospita1 
Infection Reporting Act". 
SECTION 2. The Secretary of Health shall prescribe, by regulation, 
requirements to be adopted by each general hospital with regard to reporting the 
incidence and type of nosocomial infections in hospital patients to the 
Department of Health. 
SECTION 3. For the purpose of this act, the Secretary shall direct each 
hospital to: 
1. maintain written policies and procedures that delineate the 
responsibilities of hospital staff for compiling and reporting the information that 
is reported pursuant to this Act; 
2. maintain a written record of the information that is reported for a 
specified period of time; 
3. include in its report the rate of nosocomial infection among its 
patients, based upon the number of its inpatients who develop such infections 
during the course of their hospital stay as compared with the total number of 
inpatients in the hospital during the reporting period, and the type and severity 
of those infections according to criteria set forth by the Secretary; 
4. report this information according to a schedule to be determined by 
the Secretary, but at least annually; and 
5. transmit the required information on a form and in a manner 
prescribed by the Secretary, which shall not include identifying information 
about any patient. 
SECTION 4. The Department shall make available to members of the 
general public, upon request, the information that is reported pursuant to this 
Act, in such a format as the Secretary deems appropriate to facilitate 
comparison among hospitals with respect to the reported information. 


SECTION 5. Implementing Rules and Regulations- The Secretary of 
Health shall promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to 
implement the provisions of this Act within thirty (30) days after approval of this 
Act. 
SECTION 6. All laws, decrees or executive issuances and any rules and 
regulations or any part thereof which may be inconsistent with any of the 
provisions of this Act are hereby deemed repealed, amended or modifies 
accordingly. 
SECTION 7. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its complete 
publication in two (2) newspapers of general publication. 
Approved.