CV Summary

A Summary of Major Accomplishments:

1. Founder of the First Rural Health Practice Program for Medical Graduates
2. Founder of the Philippine Chamber of Fisheries
3. Founding Father of the Iloilo State College of Fisheries (Author of ISCOF Charter under PD 1523)
4. Top Bill Maker of the 8th Congress of the Philippines with 43 bills enacted into law, among them are:
   1. The Generics Law
   2. Magna Carta for Public Health Workers
   3. Philippine Nursing Law
   4. Midwifery Act of 1992
   5. The Organ Donation Law, etc
5. Top 10 Solon in Overall performance, 8th Congress of the Philippines (Conducted by the University of the Philippines Institute for Strategic Development Studies and as funded by the Ford Foundation)
6. Topnotcher: Out of 16 candidates who ran for the election of Representative for Region VI in the Interim Batasang Pambansa in 1978
7. Declared 1988-1997 as the "Decade of Safe Motherhood", under House Resolution No. 13
8. Expanded the Medicare coverage to include farmers, fishermen, drivers, vendors, and self-employed workers
9. Established and converted the following educational institutions into State and National Colleges
10. Iloilo School of Arts and Trade to Western Visayas College of Science and Technology
11. Iloilo School of Fisheries to Iloilo State College of Fisheries
12. Pototan High School to Pototan College of Arts and Sciences
13. Dumangas National High School to Dumangas Polytechnic College
14. Don Jose Sustiger Monfort Memorial High School and Purification Dolar Monfort High School to Monfort Colleges, all branches of Western Visayas College of Science and Techology
15. Converted Dingle Agri-technical post secondary school to full pledge College
16. Converted Calinog Agri-industrial post secondary school to full pledge College
17. RA 8884 Establishment of Tagubon National High School, Dingle, Iloilo
18. RA 8886 Establishment of Dumangas National High School, Iloilo
19. RA 8887 Establishment of Nazuni Summit Comprehensive National High School, Dingle, Iloilo
20. RA 8888 Establishment of Barotac Nuevo Comprehensive National High School, Iloilo
21. RA 8889 Establishment of Salihid National High School, Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo
22. RA 8947 Establishment of Mostro National High School, Anilao, Iloilo
23. Activated the construction of new hospitals all over the country to correct imbalances in the health care delivery and to improve the quality of health of the people particularly in the lower strata of economy
24. Protected all government employees from summary dismissal (without due process of law) thereby amending PD 807 on Civil Service Law
25. Responsible for the holding of the 1991 Palarong Pambansa in Iloilo and chaired the establishment in Iloilo of one of the best Sports Complexes in the Country
26. Principal Author of Republic Act No. 8750 or the Seat Belt Act