AN ACT INCREASING THE BED CAPACITY OF VICENTE SOTTO MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER, LOCATED IN CEBU CITY, FROM EIGHT HUNDRED (800) TO ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED (1,200) BED CAPACITY, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR
Year:
2016
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Other
Date Approved:
April 26, 2016
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This Act increases the bed capacity of Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City from 800 to 1,200 beds. It also appropriates the necessary funds to implement this increase as part of the General Appropriations Act.Full Text
Sixteenth Congress
Third Regular Session
Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of July, two thousand fifteen.
REPUBLIC ACT No. 10770
AN ACT INCREASING THE BED CAPACITY OF VICENTE SOTTO MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER, LOCATED IN CEBU CITY, FROM EIGHT HUNDRED (800) TO ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED (1,200) BED CAPACITY, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
SECTION 1. The bed capacity of Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center is hereby increased from eight hundred (800) to one thousand two hundred (1,200) beds.
SECTION 2. The amount necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act shall be included in the General Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment into law and thereafter.
SECTION 3. The Department of Health is directed to implement this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in two (2) national newspapers of general circulation.
Approved,
Senate Bill No. 2767, which was approved by the Senate on January 25, 2016, was adopted by the House of Representatives as an amendment to House Bill No. 5276 on January 25, 2016.
Approved: APR 26 2016
(Sgd.) BENIGNO S. AQUINO, III
President of the Philippines
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