Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. The Cateel Medicare Hospital in the Municipality of Cateel, Province of Davao Oriental, is hereby converted into a district hospital to be known as the Cateel District Hospital.

SEC. 2. The Department of Health, in consultation with the local government officials concerned, shall promulgate the rules and regulations necessary for the effective implementation of this Act.

SEC. 3. 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; thereafter, funds necessary for the maintenance and operation of the hospital shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of the Local Government Code or the applicable law at the time.

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

Lapsed into law on June 15, 1995 without the President's signature, pursuant to Sec. 27(1), Article VI of the Constitution.