An Act Providing for the Establishment of an Emergency Hospital in the Municipality of Sogod, Province of Leyte, to be Known as the Sogod Emergency Hospital, and Authorizing the Appropriation of Funds Therefor

REPUBLIC ACT No. 2693

An Act Providing for the Establishment of an Emergency Hospital in the Municipality of Sogod, Province of Leyte, to be Known as the Sogod Emergency Hospital, and Authorizing the Appropriation of Funds Therefor

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1. There shall be established under the direct supervision of the Director of Medical Services, an emergency hospital in the Municipality of Sogod, Province of Leyte, to be known as the Sogod Emergency Hospital.

Section 2. The Secretary of Health shall issue such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of this Act.

Section 3. The sum of fifty thousand pesos is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the establishment, operation and maintenance of said hospital during the fiscal year nineteen hundred sixty-one. Thereafter, the necessary sum, for its operation and maintenance shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

Section 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 18, 1960.