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

SECTION 1. The existing Surigao del Norte Provincial Hospital in Surigao City is hereby converted into a regional training hospital to be known as Caraga Regional Hospital.

SEC. 2. The Secretary of Health shall issue such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purpose 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 and thereafter.

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

Approved, February 11, 1997.