Establishment of the Sibuyan Hospital in Cajidiocan, Romblon

June 21, 1959

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 2400

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF A HOSPITAL IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF CAJIDIOCAN, PROVINCE OF ROMBLON, AND AUTHORIZING THE APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS THEREFOR

SECTION 1.  There shall be, under the Bureau of Hospitals, a twenty-five-bed general hospital in the Municipality of Cajidiocan, Province of Romblon, to be known as the Sibuyan Hospital. The site for the said hospital shall be provided by the Municipal Council of the Municipality of Cajidiocan in consultation with the Director of Hospitals.

SECTION 2.  The Secretary of Health shall promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry into effect the purpose of this Act.

SECTION 3.  The sum of fifty thousand pesos is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the maintenance and operation of the said hospital during the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred sixty: Provided, That no amount to be appropriated will be released unless the Secretary of Health certifies that a suitable hospital building is available. Such sums as may be necessary for its operation and maintenance in subsequent years shall be included in the Annual General Appropriation Acts.

SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon the date the funds authorized herein to be appropriated are provided for.

Enacted without executive approval, June 21, 1959.

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 55, No. 34, p. 6972 on August 24, 1959