SIXTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE )
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES )
First Regular Session )

HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES
House Bill No.__ 38869

Introduced by: MA. THERESA B. BONOAN
4th District, City of Manila

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill seeks to convert and upgrade the Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center
located in the City of Manila into Ospital ng Maynila General Hospital which
administration and management will now be under the national government through
the Department of Health.

The enactment on June 22, 1957, or Republic Act 1939, otherwise known as the
Hospital Financing Act, spurred the City of Manila to establish its own hospital—one of
which is the Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center. The law required Manila to contribute
1% of its annual income for the operation and maintenance of national hospitals in the

city!

On April 11, 1962, the then President Diosdado Macapagal issues Presidential
Proclamation No. 31 turning over to the City of Manila for hospital purposes the
national government property at the corner of Harrison and Roxas Boulevard to which
the Ospital of Maynila Medical Center was built and continued to stand as of this time.?

However, the City of Maynila is, at present, in severe financial distress and
submerged in huge financial indebtedness amounting to millions of pesos. By reason of
the same, the City of Manila is now having a hard time to budget its collections from
basic services for its constitutents and could hardly sustain the maintenance of the said
hospital, thus the need to transfer Ospital ng Maynila’s administration and
management unde rthe national government through the Department of Health.

‘The transfer of the management and administration of the Ospital ng Maynila to
the national government will not only improve its services but it will result to its
upgrade in services particularly that it will not only cater the residents of Manila, but
more so the general population.

In view of the foregoing, the passage of this bill is earnestly sought.
MA. THERESA BONOAN
4th District, City of Manila

1 Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
2 Ibid.


SIXTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE )
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES )
First Regular Session )

HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES
House Bill No. __ 3869

Introduced by: MA. THERESA B. BONOAN
4th District, City of Manila

AN ACT CONVERTING THE OSPITAL NG MAYNILA
MEDICAL CENTER (OMMC) IN THE CITY OF MANILA
INTO OSPITAL NG MAYNILA GENERAL HOSPITAL AND
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

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

SEC. 1. Title. - This Act shall be known as the “Ospital ng Maynila Conversion
and Upgrading Act of 2014”.

SEC. 2. Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center Conversion. - The Ospital ng Maynila
Medical Center in the City of Manila created by virtue of Republic Act 1939,
otherwise known as the Hospital Financing Act, which spurred the City of
Manila to establish its own hospital is hereby converted to a general hospital to
be known as the Ospital ng Maynila General Hospital.

SEC. 3. Conversion Plan. - The conversion scheme, including the proposed
timetable for the same, shall be carried out under a conversion plan to be drawn
up by the Central Office of the Department of Health: Provided, That said plan
shall be constituted and coordinated by the Department with the Center for
Health Development Metro Manila Director, Chief of Ospital ng Maynila
General Hospital, medical and non-medical personnel through their legal or
duly-designated representatives, and other stakeholders and the City of Manila
through its authorized representative.

Part of the conversion plan of the Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center, its
management and administration shall be made under the national government
through the Department of Health. By reason of this, Ospital ng Maynila General
Hospital shall be included in the list of hospitals under the administration and
supervision of the Department of Health.

SEC. 4. Transfer of All Assets and Liabilities. - All assets, movable and
immovable, and records of the Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center, as well as


its liabilities and obligations, are hereby transferred to the Ospital ng Maynila
General Hospital.

SEC. 5. Security of Tenure. The positions, seniority, security and other rights
of tenure of medical and non-medical personnel of the Ospital ng Maynila
Medical Center shall continue to be honored under the Ospital ng Maynila
General Hospital.

SEC. 6. Expanded Services. - Considering the coversion and upgrade of the
Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center into a general hospital and its administration
and management being now under the Department of Health, it will expand its
services not only to the residents or constituents of the City of Manila but to the
whole country as well particluarly those in the nearby cities.

SEC. 7. Appropriations. ~ The Secretary of Health shall immediately include in
the Department's programs the operationalization of the Ospital ng Maynila
General Hospital, the initial funding of which shall be charged against its current
year’s appropriations. Thereafter, the amount necessary for its continued
operation shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

In this view, the City of Manila will no longer appropriate any part of its
budget for the funding of the Ospital ng Maynila General Hospital as it will now
be under the national government’s management and administration.

SEC. 8. Supplementary Funding. - The CHD for Metro Manila Regional
Director and Chief of Hospital, in coordination with the City of Manila—the
concerned local government unit, shall also draw up a mechanism for sourcing
supplementary funds to augment the operations of the Ospital ng Maynila
General Hospital.

SEC. 9. Separability Clause. - If any portion or provision of this Act is declared
unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act or any provision not affected thereby
shall remain in force and effect.

SEC. 10. Repealing Clause. ~ All laws, decrees, orders, rules and regulations or
other issuances or parts thereof inconsistent with the provisions ofthis Act are
hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

SEC, 11. Effectivity.- This Act shall take effect after fifteen (15) days following

the completion of its publication either in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper
of general circulation in the Philippines..

Approved.