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House of Representatives DEX

Quezon City, Metro Manila

Eighteenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No. _ 2605

Introduced by Representative Christian S. 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-Medina and appropriating funds
therefor.

Section 11 of Article XIII of the 1987 Constitution provides:

“Sec. 11. The State shall adopt an integrated and comprehensive approach
to health development which shall endeavour to make essential goods, health and
other social services available to all people at affordable cost. There shall be
priority for the needs of the underprivileged sick, elderly, disabled, women and
children. The State shall endeavour to provide free medical care to paupers.”

In 1948, the Puericulture Center and Women’s Club was organized by
Dojia Felipe N. Pelaez, the mother of then Vice President Emmanuel Pelaez. In
1976, the Board of Directors of the Puericulture Center established a maternity
hospital to provide services to the women and children 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.


Due to lack of subsidy, the Medina Hospital ceased operations in 2005.
For five years, the hospital was closed thus depriving the people of Medina the
much needed maternal and child health services. Eventually, the leaders of the
Women’s Club, with the consent of its members donated Medina Hospital to the
Department of Health. During the administration of President Benigno S. Aquino
III, the amount of 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 not
only maternal and child health services but also other preventive, curative and
rehabilitative services to the residents of the Municipality of Medina and the
neighboring towns 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 sought.

‘UNABIA


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Republic of the Philippines

House of Representatives
Quezon City, Metro Manila

Eighteenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No._ 2805

Introduced by Representative Christian S. 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 - MEDINA

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-Medina.

SEC. 2. The Northern Mindanao Medical Center Extension Hospital-
Medina 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 conveyed to the Northern

Mindanao Medical Center Extension Hospital-Medina.

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-
Medina, 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-Medina 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 Northern Mindanao Medical Center Extension

Hospital-Medina 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-Medina, 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 shall

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,