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First Reading
Second Reading — Committee
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Bangsamoro Autonomy Act No. 69
In forceAn Act Creating and Establishing a Level 1 General Hospital to Be Known as Aleem Abdulazis S. Mimbantas Memorial Hospital in the Municipality of Masiu, Province of Lanao Del Sur and Appropriating Funds Therefor and for Other Purposes
A 50-bed general hospital is established under the direct control and supervision of the Ministry of Health, with any future expansion tied to a hospital development plan the Ministry prepares.
Filed
First Reading
Second Reading — Committee
Second Reading — Plenary
Third Reading
Approved
EnactedNow
Signed into law and operative unless later amended or repealed.
What this measure does
A fifty-bed general hospital is established at Masiu in Lanao del Sur, under the direct control and supervision of the Ministry of Health. Any future growth — more beds, upgraded services or facilities — has to rest on a hospital development plan the Ministry prepares. Fifty million pesos is appropriated from the 2025 budget, and implementing rules were due within 60 days of enactment.
The policy section is slightly wider than the standard formula used across the region's hospital acts. Alongside the usual language about a general hospital system and the basic right to life, it adds a purpose the others omit: to adequately respond to emergencies, disasters and emerging diseases.
The hospital is named for Alim Abdul Aziz Mimbantas, vice chairperson of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front — the same man whose burial site, a few months earlier, BAA 60 declared a Bangsamoro Memorial Site.
Why it was proposed
The Organic Law duty to build a general hospital system, with an added emphasis on emergency, disaster and epidemic response — a preoccupation the region acquired the hard way, and one visible elsewhere in acts like the 2021 oxygen buffer stock.
Who it affects
- Residents of Masiu and the surrounding parts of Lanao del Sur.
- Patients needing hospital care in emergencies, disasters or disease outbreaks.
Who would implement it
- Ministry of Health – BARMM, which holds direct control and supervision, prepares the hospital development plan and issues implementing rules
Funding
Carries an appropriation. ₱50,000,000 initial, charged against the Miscellaneous and Personnel Benefit Fund of the 2025 General Appropriation Act of the Bangsamoro, with later operations in the annual appropriations.
What changes if it becomes law
- Masiu gains a 50-bed general hospital.
- Expansion is put on a planning footing controlled by the Ministry of Health.
- Emergency, disaster and epidemic response is written into the hospital's stated purpose.
Raised during deliberations
No published record of the debate on this measure. Parliament’s journals cover sittings up to March 2023 only, and no committee report on it has been published.
What to notice
Four hospitals were established on 12 December 2024, and each received exactly fifty million pesos. Three are twenty-five bed facilities; this one is fifty beds. The same initial appropriation is doing twice the work here, and nothing in any of the four acts explains the arithmetic — there is no costing, no per-bed figure, and no needs assessment behind either the capacity or the money. A uniform amount attached to different-sized facilities suggests a number chosen for the batch rather than for the building.
The naming is worth noticing as a pattern rather than a detail. The region is commemorating the founders of the movement that produced it — a memorial site at Butig for Salamat Hashim and Mimbantas in July 2024, and a hospital carrying Mimbantas's name 5 months later. Memorialisation through infrastructure is a deliberate choice: a hospital keeps a name in daily use in a way a marker does not.
As with its siblings, the act has no completion date. Fifty beds are authorised and fifty million pesos are appropriated, and when the hospital opens is left entirely to the budget cycle.