June 22, 1998 *

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8658

AN ACT INCREASING THE BED CAPACITY OF VICENTE SOTTO MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER, LOCATED IN CEBU CITY, FROM FOUR HUNDRED (400) TO EIGHT HUNDRED (800) BED CAPACITY, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

SECTION 1.  The bed capacity of Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center is hereby increased from four hundred (400) to eight hundred (800) beds.

SECTION 2.  The amount necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act shall be included in the General Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment into law and thereafter.

SECTION 3.  The Department of Health is directed to implement this Act.

SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in two (2) national newspapers of general circulation.

 

* Lapsed into law on June 22, 1998, without the signature of the President, in accordance with Article VI, Section 27(1) of the Constitution.

Published in Malaya and Manila Standard on June 25, 1998. Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 94 No. 31, 91 Supp., on August 3, 1998.