Conversion and mandated bed capacity
- Section 1 converts the Sara District Hospital in the Municipality of Sara, Province of Iloilo into a one hundred (100)-bed district hospital.
- The converted hospital is to be known as the Sara District Hospital.
- Section 1 establishes the hospital’s target capacity as 100 beds.
Operational determination by DOH
- Section 2 directs the Secretary of Health to determine the manner by which the hospital shall be operational.
- The Secretary of Health is the authority tasked to decide operational modalities following the conversion mandated by Section 1.
Funding and appropriation mechanism
- Section 3 provides that the amount necessary to carry out the Act shall be included in the General Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment into law.
- Section 3 further provides that such inclusion continues in the years thereafter as needed to carry out the Act’s provisions.
Timeline of legislative passage
- The House of Representatives passed the Act on December 17, 1991.
- The Senate passed the Act on February 3, 1992.
- Approval occurred on April 27, 1992, by the President of the Philippines.
- The Act’s legislative process concluded with final passage by both Houses and presidential approval.