QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 2288)
RA 2288 provides for the maintenance and operation of a hospital in the Municipality of Calubian, Province of Leyte, to be known as the Calubian Hospital, and authorizes the appropriation of funds for it.
It shall be a twenty-five-bed general hospital.
Under the direct supervision of the Director of Medical Services.
In the Municipality of Calubian, Province of Leyte.
The Municipal Council of the Municipality of Calubian, in consultation with the Director of Medical Services, determines the site.
The Secretary of Health shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to carry into effect the purpose of the Act.
Fifty thousand pesos.
Out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
No amount will be released unless the Secretary of Health certifies that a suitable hospital building is available.
Any sum necessary for its operation and maintenance in subsequent years shall be included in the annual General Appropriation Acts.
It takes effect upon the date the funds authorized in the Act have been provided.
While it authorizes appropriation, release is conditional; it requires the Secretary of Health’s certification that a suitable hospital building is available, and effect depends on funds being provided.
It implies a general hospital with capacity for 25 beds, intended to provide general medical services rather than a specialized facility.
The Municipal Council determines the hospital site in consultation with the Director of Medical Services.
The hospital is under his direct supervision, and he is also consulted regarding the hospital’s site.
Fiscal year nineteen hundred sixty.
It is a statutory condition precedent to the release of the authorized appropriation.