QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 7232)
The text discusses Republic Act No. 7232, titled “An Act Expanding and Upgrading the Severo Verallo Memorial District Hospital in the Municipality of Bogo, Province of Cebu, from a Fifty-Bed Capacity District Hospital into a Seventy-Five-Bed Capacity Provincial Hospital, to be known as the Cebu Provincial Hospital, and Appropriating Funds therefor.”
It is located in the Municipality of Bogo, Province of Cebu.
It is a fifty-bed capacity district hospital.
It will be expanded and upgraded into a seventy-five-bed capacity provincial hospital.
It will be known as the Cebu Provincial Hospital.
Section 1 mandates that the Severo Verallo Memorial District Hospital (Bogo General Hospital) be expanded and upgraded from a fifty-bed district hospital to a seventy-five-bed provincial hospital, and that it be known as the Cebu Provincial Hospital.
Yes. It explicitly states that the hospital will be a “seventy-five-bed capacity provincial hospital.”
The amount necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act shall be included in the General Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment into law and thereafter.
In the General Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment into law, and thereafter.
Section 3 provides that the Act shall take effect upon its approval.
It was approved on March 19, 1992.
It states the Act originated in the House of Representatives and was finally passed by the House of Representatives on January 20, 1992 and by the Senate on December 11, 1991.
It shows signatures of President Corazon C. Aquino (President of the Philippines), the Senate President Neptali A. Gonzales, and the Speaker of the House Ramon V. Mitra; it also includes the Secretaries’ signatures for the Senate and House.
It primarily upgrades and expands an existing district hospital’s capacity from fifty beds to seventy-five beds and reclassifies it as a provincial hospital, with a new name.
It provides a clear statutory benchmark for the hospital’s authorized capacity, supporting government planning, resource allocation, and subsequent implementation through appropriations.
It uses a future budgeting mechanism: the necessary amount shall be included in the General Appropriations Act of the year following enactment and thereafter, rather than a specific amount being directly stated in the text.