Question & AnswerQ&A (Republic Act No. 5195)
A station hospital is defined as a small hospital of not more than twenty-five bed capacity for the management of common medical and maternity cases and surgical emergencies requiring ordinarily a short period of confinement. Cases requiring complicated major surgery and/or elaborate diagnostic examination or specialist treatment may not be confined in this hospital but transferred to regular provincial or regional hospitals.
The Claveria Station Hospital is established in the Municipality of Claveria, Province of Masbate.
The Claveria Station Hospital shall have a bed capacity of not less than ten nor more than twenty-five beds.
The Secretary of Health is responsible for causing the establishment of the hospital, providing a suitable table of organization not exceeding fourteen personnel, and promulgating rules and regulations for its maintenance and operation.
Yes, the Secretary of Health may merge the Claveria Station Hospital with local health units in the Municipality of Claveria if the exigency of the service demands it, provided that the public health work of the local health units will not be impaired.
A sum not to exceed fifty thousand pesos is authorized to be appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the first fiscal year of operation.
Thereafter, such sums as may be needed, but not to exceed fifty thousand pesos, for establishment, maintenance, and operation shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
Republic Act No. 5195 took effect upon its approval on June 15, 1968.
The hospital can manage common medical and maternity cases and surgical emergencies requiring ordinarily a short period of confinement. Cases requiring complicated major surgery, elaborate diagnostic examination, or specialist treatment must be transferred to regular provincial or regional hospitals.
The table of organization for the hospital shall not exceed fourteen personnel.