AN ACT ESTABLISHING A GENERAL HOSPITAL IN THE CITY OF BACOLOD, PROVINCE OF NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, TO BE KNOWN AS THE BACOLOD CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

Eighteenth Congress
Second Regular Session

Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of July, two thousand twenty.

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11564, June 24, 2021 ]

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A GENERAL HOSPITAL IN THE CITY OF BACOLOD, PROVINCE OF NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, TO BE KNOWN AS THE BACOLOD CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

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

Section 1. There shall be established a tertiary general hospital in the City of Bacolod, Province of Negros Occidental to be known as the Bacolod City General Hospital (BCGH).

Section 2. The City Government of Bacolod shall provide funding for the establishment, operation and maintenance of the BCGH.

Section 3. The Chief of the Hospital of the BCGH shall submit to the Department of Health (DOH) a development plan to reflect the development goals of the hospital. The medical personnel, capital outlays and budgetary needs for the operation of the BCGH shall be based on the hospital development plan.

Section 4. The amount of Six hundred million pesos (P600,000,000.00) is hereby appropriated for the implementation of this Act which shall be included and funded under the 2022 General Appropriations Act under the Health Facilities Enhancement Program (HFEP) of the DOH.

Section 5. The Secretary of Health, in consultation and coordination with local government officials concerned, shall promulgate the necessary rules and regulation for the effective implementation of this Act within ninety (90) days from its effectivity.

Section 6. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,

This Act which originated in the House of Representatives was passed by the House of Representatives on June 3, 2020, amended by the  Senate of the Philippines on May 31, 2021, and which amendment was concurred in by the House of Representatives on June 2, 2021.

Approved: JUN 24 2021

(SGD.) RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE
President of the Philippines