AN ACT INCREASING THE BED CAPACITY OF THE ZAMBOANGA CITY MEDICAL CENTER IN ZAMBOANGA CITY FROM FIVE HUNDRED (500) TO EIGHT HUNDRED (800) BEDS AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7272, AS AMENDED, ENTITLED "AN ACT CONVERTING THE ZAMBOANGA REGIONAL HOSPITAL IN ZAMBOANGA CITY INTO ZAMBOANGA CITY MEDICAL CENTER, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

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. 11087

AN ACT INCREASING THE BED CAPACITY OF THE ZAMBOANGA CITY MEDICAL CENTER IN ZAMBOANGA CITY FROM FIVE HUNDRED (500) TO EIGHT HUNDRED (800) BEDS AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7272, AS AMENDED, ENTITLED "AN ACT CONVERTING THE ZAMBOANGA REGIONAL HOSPITAL IN ZAMBOANGA CITY INTO ZAMBOANGA CITY MEDICAL CENTER, 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 Zamboanga City Medical Center in Zamboanga City is hereby increased from five hundred (500) to eight hundred (800) beds.

Section 2. The existing hospital facilities and professional health care services of the Zamboanga City Medical Center are hereby upgraded to conform with and be commensurate to the increase in its bed capacity as provided in Section 1 hereof.

Section 3. The existing workforce of the Zamboanga City Medical Center shall also be correspondingly increased. The Department of Health, shall, in coordination with the Department of Budget and Management and the Civil Service Commission, and after consultation with the Zamboanga City Medical Center, determine the additional plantilla positions to be created pursuant to this Act.

Section 4. The increase in bed capacity of the Zamboanga City Medical Center from five hundred (500) to eight hundred (800) beds shall be implemented for a period of not more than two (2) years from the approval of this Act.

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

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,

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 and the Senate on December 11, 2017 and August 7, 2018, respectively.

MYRA MARIE D. VILLARICA
Secretary of the Senate

DANTE ROBERTO P. MALING
Acting Secretary General
House of Representatives

Approved: October 10, 2018

(Sgd.) RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE
President of the Philippines