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Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City
17" Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO, 4598

Introduced by Representative WES GATCHALIAN

EXPLANATORY NOTE

‘The Philippine Constitution provides that “The State shall protect and promote
the right to health of the people and instill health consciousness among them".

Also, Art, XIII, Sec. 11, in particular states 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 the people at affordable cost. There shall be priority for the needs of the
under-privileged, sick, elderly, disabled, women, and children. The State shall
endeavor to provide free medical care to paupers”.

Accordingly, the government must ensure that specialty hospitals (level 3)
should be widely distributed geographically across the country being an
archipelagic country instead of its concentration in the National Capital
Region.

It calls for the decentralization of hospital services, particularly that of the
Philippine Lung Center whose establishment was aimed at providing the
Filipino people the state-of-the-art specialized care for lung and other chest
diseases.

It is worth noting that the National TB Control Program (NTP) surveillance
data for the period 2003 to 2011 reveals that the Philippines is one of the
highest tuberculosis (TB) burden countries in the world. Though significant
progress has been achieved, there is still an urgent need to provide effective
pulmonary care to patients and vulnerable groups such as the urban and rural
poor particularly in the Visayas and Mindanao region.


Hospitals are among the primary social facilities that developing communities
should have. By providing an arm of the Philippine Lung Center in Visayas and
Mindanao, the bill hopes for constituents of the Visayas and Midanao regions
to feel the presence of the national government in their midst. Though there
have been continuous efforts by the national government and state agencies
in addressing lung-related maladies, there is still a handful of Filipino citizens
who do not have the financial means to travel and consult with medical
experts in Metro Manila. Thus, through this bill, we hope to address this
wreaking problem of insufficient medical hospitals all over the Philippine
archipelago.

The immediate passage of this bill is earnestly requested.

Representative
1st District Valeng


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City
17% Congress
First Regular Session

4558

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by Representative WES GATCHALIAN

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING THE VISAYAS AND MINDANAO HOSPITAL FACILITIES OF
THE LUNG CENTER OF THE PHILIPPINE, AMENDING FOR THAT PURPOSE
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1832, PROVIDING FUNDS THEREFOR , AND
OTHER PURPOSES.

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

Section 1, Section 1 of Presidential Decree No. 1832, is hereby amended to read as
follows:

Section 1. Creation of the Lung Center of the Philippines. There is
hereby created a trust, under the name and style of Lung Center of
the Philippines, which shall be administered, according to the
Articles of Incorporation, By-Laws and Objectives of the Lung Center
of the Philippines, Inc, duly registered (reg. No, 85886) with the
Securities and Exchange Commission of the Republic of the
Philippines, by the Office of the President, in coordination wi

Section 2. Funding. To carry out the purpose of this Act, including the operation of
LCP-Visayas, and the LCP-Mindanao, the land acquisition, construction, and the acquisition
of hospital equipments, furniture and fixtures, the sum of Five Hundred Million


(500,000,000.00) pesos for each hospital is hereby appropriated. Thereafter the expenses
for the LCP-Visayas and LCP-Mindanao shall be provided in the General Appropriations
Acts intended for the Lung Center of the Philippines,

Section 3. Implementing Rules and Regulations. ~ The Board of Foundation shal!
formulate the implementing rules and regulations to carry out the implementation of this
Act.

Section 4. Separability Clause. ~ If, for any reason, any provision of this Act is
declared unconstitutional or invalid, the other parts or provisions hereof which are not
affected shall continue to be in full force and effect

Section 5. Repealing Clause. ~ All laws, decrees, orders, rules and regulations or
portions thereof, inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed or modified accordingly,

Section 6. Effectivity. - ‘This Act shall take effect on the day following its complete
publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Adopted,