Eighteenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No.__ 4744

Introduced by Representative Henry S. Oaminal

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to increase the bed capacity of Mayor Hilarion A. Ramiro
Sr. Medical Center in the Province of Misamis Occidental from Five hundred
(500) to One thousand (1000) beds, upgrade its services, facilities and
professional health care, and authorize the increase of its medical personnel.

Section 11, Article XIII of the Constitution provides 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 underprivileged sick, elderly, disabled, women and children.
The State shall endeavor to provide free medical care to
paupers.”

In pursuant to the foregoing constitutional provision, the State is
mandated to protect and promote the right to health of every Filipino by making
quality and adequate health care available and accessible to everybody,
especially the poor and the disadvantaged. In the fulfillment of this mandate,
the Mayor Hilarion A. Ramiro Sr. Medical Center (MHARSMC) was
established in the Province of Misamis Occidental by virtue of RA No. 10865.


The MHARSMC is a 500-bed capacity medical center which provides
preventive, curative, rehabilitative and training medical services to the residents
of the Province of Misamis Occidental. It is also considered as a referral and
affiliating hospital of the Province of Misamis Occidental and its neighboring
provinces of Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur, Lanao de Norte, and
Lanao del Sur. The MHARSMC delivers the health and medical needs of the
people from these areas. For years, MHARSMC has been plagued with the
problems of having insufficient bed capacity to cater to the growing population
of the Province Misamis Occidental and the many patients coming from the
neighboring provinces. The initial increase in bed capacity of the MHARSMC
from One hundred (100) to Five hundred (500) beds is not sufficient anymore to
comfortably accommodate its patients.

This bill therefore seeks to increase the bed capacity of MHARSMC
from Five hundred (500) to One thousand (1000) beds and upgrade its services,
facilities and professional health and authorize the increase of its medical
personnel. The increase in MHARSMC's bed capacity will greatly benefit and
better address the health needs of the people of Misamis Occidental and its
neighboring provinces. It would also enable them to access world class tertiary
health care and other medical services pursuant to the goals, objectives and
rules of the national Health Insurance Program.

In view of the foregoing, immediate approval of this bill is earnestly

sought.

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Republic of the Philippines
House of Representatives
Quezon City, Metro Manila
Eighteenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No.__4744

Introduced by Representative Henry S. Oaminal

AN ACT

INCREASING THE BED CAPACITY OF MAYOR HILARION A.
RAMIRO SR. MEDICAL CENTER IN THE PROVINCE OF MISAMIS
OCCIDENTAL FROM FIVE HUNDRED (500) TO ONE THOUSAND
(1000) BEDS, UPGRADING ITS SERVICES AND FACILITIES AND
PROFESSIONAL HEALTH CARE, AUTHORIZING THE INCREASE
OF ITS MEDICAL PERSONNEL AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS
THEREFOR

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

SECTION 1. The authorized bed capacity of the Mayor Hilarion A.
Ramiro Sr. Medical Center (MHARSMC) in the Province of Misamis
Occidental is hereby increased from Five hundred (500) to One thousand (1000)
beds.

SEC. 2. The existing facilities and professional health care services of
the MHARSMC are hereby upgraded to conform and be commensurate to the to
the authorized bed capacity increase as provided for in Section 1 of this Act.

SEC. 3. The plantilla of employees of the MHARSMC shall also be


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increased correspondingly commensurate to the increased in its authorized bed
capacity. The Secretary of Health shall, in coordination with the Secretary of
Budget and Management, Commissioner of the Civil Service Commission, and
Medical Center Chief of MHARSMC, determine the additional plantilla
positions to be created and filled up pursuant to this Act.

SEC. 4. The increase in bed capacity of the MHARSMC from Five
hundred (500) to One thousand (1000) beds shall be implemented for a period
of not more than two (2) years from the approval of this Act.

SEC. 5. The Secretary of Health shall immediately include in the
Department’s program the implementation of this Act, the funding of which
shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

SEC. 6. Within sixty (60) days from the approval of this Act, the
Secretary of Health in consultation with the Secretary of the DBM, shall
promulgate the necessary rules and regulations for the effective implementation
of this Act.

SEC. 7. Republic Act No. 10865 otherwise known as the “Mayor
Hilarion A. Ramiro Sr. Medical Center Act” is hereby amended and all laws,
rules and regulations which are inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed,
amended or modified accordingly.

SEC, 8. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in
the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

‘Approved,