QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 7442)
RA 7442 aims to increase the bed capacity of the Sara District Hospital in the Municipality of Sara, Province of Iloilo, and to provide funds for its implementation.
The Sara District Hospital is converted into a one hundred (100)-bed district hospital.
It converts the existing Sara District Hospital into a 100-bed district hospital and renames/continues it as the Sara District Hospital.
The Secretary of Health.
The amount necessary shall be included in the General Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment into law and thereafter.
It requires that the necessary funds be included in the General Appropriations Act for the next year after enactment and in subsequent years as needed.
It takes effect upon its approval.
RA 7442 was approved on April 27, 1992.
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It indicates the law’s main policy objective: expanding hospital capacity to meet health service needs by upgrading the hospital to a specified number of beds.
The Sara District Hospital is in the Municipality of Sara, Province of Iloilo.
Because government expenditures generally require appropriation; thus, RA 7442 conditions/links actual spending to the General Appropriations Act.
The year following enactment—i.e., the next year after 1992, subject to the law’s timing in effect (commonly the 1993 General Appropriations Act).
It delegates operational discretion to the Secretary of Health, illustrating how legislation assigns implementing authority to executive agencies.
It mandates institutional scaling in terms of capacity, staffing, facilities, and service capability consistent with a 100-bed district hospital, subject to the implementation determined by the Secretary of Health.