REPUBLIC ACT No. 2449

An Act Providing for the Establishment of a Hospital in the Municipality of Guiuan, Province of Samar, and Authorizing the Appropriation of Funds Therefor

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1. There shall be established, under the supervision of the Director of Medical Services, a hospital in the Municipality of Guiuan, Province of Samar, to be known as the Guiuan Emergency Hospital.

Section 2. The Secretary of Health shall issue such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out 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 establishment, operation and maintenance of said hospital during the fiscal year nineteen hundred sixty. Such sums as may be needed for the same purpose in subsequent years shall be included in the annual General Appropriation Acts.

Section 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 21, 1959.


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