An Act Increasing the Bed Capacity of Rizal Medical Center in Pasig City From Three Hundred (300) to Five Hundred (500) Beds and Appropriating Funds Therefor
Year:
2019
Category:
Other
Date Approved:
February 14, 2019
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This Act increases the authorized bed capacity of the Rizal Medical Center in Pasig City from 300 to 500 beds. It also provides for the necessary upgrades to medical equipment and facilities to accommodate this increase, with implementation expected within three years.Full Text
Seventeenth Congress
Third Regular Session
Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-third day of July, two thousand eighteen.
REPUBLIC ACT No. 11208
An Act Increasing the Bed Capacity of Rizal Medical Center in Pasig City From Three Hundred (300) to Five Hundred (500) Beds and Appropriating Funds Therefor
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:
Section 1. The authorized bed capacity of the Rizal Medical Center (RMC) in Pasig City is hereby upgraded from three hundred (300) to five hundred (500) beds.
Section 2. The existing medical equipment and facilities, its operating funds and construction of the needed infrastructure of the RMC are hereby upgraded to conform with and commensurate to the increase in bed capacity as provided in Section 1 hereof.
Section 3. The increase in bed capacity of RMC from three hundred (300) to five hundred (500) beds shall be implemented for a period of not more than three (3) years from the approval of this Act. The Secretary of Health shall immediately include in the Department’s programs the said implementation, the funding of which shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
Section 4. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.
Approved,
VICENTE C. SOTTO III
President of the Senate
GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO
Speaker of the House of Representatives
This Act which originated in the House of Representatives was passed by the House of Representatives on November 28, 2017, amended by the Senate on July 24, 2018, and which amendment was concurred in by the House of Representatives on November 20, 2018.
MYRA MARIE D. VILLARICA
Secretary of the Senate
DANTE ROBERTO P. MALING
Acting Secretary General
House of Representatives
Approved: February 14, 2019
(Sgd.) RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE
President of the Philippines
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