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RA5527
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Section 1. Title.- This Act may be also cited as the Philippine
Medical Technology Act of 1. 1969.
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Section 2. Definition of Terms
a. Practice of Medical Technology
- professional
- job description
- board passer
b. Pathologist
c. Medical Technologist
d. Medical Laboratory Technicians
e. Accredited Medical Technology Training Laboratory
f. Recognized School of Medical Technology
g. Council - The council of medical technology education
established under this Act.
h. Board - The Board of Examiners for Medical Technology
established under this Act.
Section 3. Council of Medical Technology Education, Its
Composition
-Director of Higher Education: Chairman
- Chairman of the Professional Regulation
Commission: Vice-Chairman
- Director of the Bureau of Research and
Laboratories of the Department of
Health
- The Chairman and two (2) members of the
Board of Medical Technology
- representative of the Deans of Schools of
Medical Technology and Public Health,
- Presidents of the Philippine Society of
Pathologists
- Philippine Association of Medical
Technologists, as members.
Section 4. Compensation and Traveling Expenses of Council Members.
- Chairman (P50.00) 2.
- members (P25.00)
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5. Functions of the Council of Medical
Technology Education
(a) minimum required curriculum
(b) number of students
(c) To approve medical technology schools and
recommend closure
(d) annual report
(e) inspect different medical technology schools
in the
country
( f ) undergraduate internship students : collect the
amount of five pesos
(g) refresher course: failed third time
(h) To promulgate and prescribe
Section 6. Minimum Required Course
 Section 7. Medical Technology Board
-Chairman: pathologist : three years
-two members who are registered medical
technologists: three years
 Section 8. Qualifications of Examiners
1. Filipino citizen
2. is of good moral character
3. is a qualified Pathologist, or a duly registered medical
technologist
4. has been in practice of laboratory medicine or
medical technology for at least ten years prior to his
appointment
5. is not a member of the faculty of any medical
technology school for at least two (2) years prior to
appointment
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Section 9. Executive Officer of the Board. Section 10. Compensation of Members of the Board of Examiners
ten pesos for each applicant
five pesos for each applicant granted a
certificate of registration without examination.
 Section 11. Functions and Duties of the Board
 a. Administer the provisions of this Act;
b. Administer oaths
c. Issue, suspend and revoke certificates of registration
d. Look into conditions affecting the practice of medical
technology in the Philippines
e. Investigate such violations of this Act
f. Draft such rules and regulations
g. To determine the adequacy of the technical staff of all clinical
laboratories and blood banks
h. To prescribe the qualifications and training of medical
technologists as to special fields of the profession and supervise their
specialty examination conducted by the professional organization
of medical technologists accredited by the Professional Regulation
Commission;
i. To classify and prescribe the qualification and training of the
technical staff of clinical laboratories as to: Medical Technology;
Medical Technologist; Senior Medical Technologist; Medical
Technologist and Medical Laboratory Technician.
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Section 12. Removal of Board Members.Section 13. Accreditation of Schools of Medical Technology and of
Training Laboratories.
Department of Education shall approve schools of medical technology
The Department of Health: approve laboratories for accreditation as
training laboratories for Medical Technology students or postgraduate
trainees
Section 14. Inhibition Against the Practice of Medical Technology.
a. Duly registered physicians.
b. Medical technologist from other countries called in for consultation
c. Medical technologists in the service of the United States Armed Forces
stationed in the Philippines rendering services as such for members of the
said forces only.
Section 15. Examination.- 14-16
- greater Manila area
- Cebu
- Davao
- least three newspapers of national circulation: 17. 30days
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Section 16. Qualification for Examination.a. Is in good health and is of good moral character;
b. Has completed a course of at least four (4) years
c. having graduated from some other profession and has
been actually performing medical technology for the last
five (5) years
Section 17. Scope of Examination.Clinical Chemistry ...................................................... 20%
Microbiology & Parasitology ...................................... 20%
Hematology ............................................................... 20%
Blood Banking & Serology ......................................... 20%
Clinical Microscopy (Urinalysis and
other body fluids) ...................................………......... 10%
Histopathologic Techniques, Cytotechnology, Medical
Technology Laws, Related Laws and its implementing
rules, and the Code of Ethics ........................……….. 10%
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Clinical Chemistry
20%
Microbiology and Parasitology
Hematology
20%
20%
Blood Banking and Serology
20%
Clinical Microscopy (Urinalysis and other
body fluids) 10%
Histopathologic Technique with MTLE 10%
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18. Report of Rating.120 days
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19. Rating in the Examination.- general average: 21. 75%
- no rating below 50% in any of the major subjects
- not failed in at least 60% of the subjects
- failed 3times: 12 month refresher course
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20. Oath Taking
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21. Issuance of Certificate of Registration
 - 21 years of age
 required to display his certificate of registration in the
place where he works.
 payment (P115.00)
 certificate of registration as medical technologist
without examination
 1. graduated from any foreign country: have been in
the practice of medical technology for at least three
(3) years
 2. having graduated from other professions have
been actually performing medical technology
practice for the last eight (8) years
 certificate
of registration as medical laboratory
technician without examination
 payment (P500.00)
 1. passed the civil service examination for medical
technician given on March 21, 1964
2. two-year college course and has at least one (1)
year of experience as medical laboratory
technician
 every year of deficiency in college attainment two
(2) years of experience may be substituted
 least ten (10) years of experience as medical
laboratory technician
3. failed but has : general rating of at least 70%.
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22. Fees. Section 23. Refusal to issue Certificate. 1. guilty of immoral or dishonorable conduct
 2. unsound mind
 3. incurable communicable disease
 Section 24. Administrative Investigation
 Revocation or Suspension of Certificates
 at least two members of the Board with one legal
officer sitting during the investigation
 unprofessional conduct, malpractice, incompetency,
or serious ignorance or gross negligence in the
practice of medical technology
 reprimand or suspension: not to exceed two years
 surrender his certificate of registration within thirty
days
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25. Appeal. thirty days after its promulgation
 Section 26. Reinstatement, Reissue or Replacement
of Certificate. Section 27. Foreign Reciprocity. Section 28. Roster of Medical Technologist.-
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Section 29. Penal Provisions.fine of not less than two thousand pesos nor more than five
thousand pesos, or imprisonment for not less than six months nor
more than two years, or both
a. Practice without registration
b. Practice without supervision of a qualified pathologist
c. knowingly make a fraudulent laboratory report
d. fail to display his certificate of registration in the place where
he works;
e. attempting to use as his own, the certificate of registration of
another;
f. false or fraudulent evidence in obtaining a certificate of
registration
g. impersonate any registrant
h. use a revoked or suspended certificate of registration;
i. advertise any title or description tending to convey the
impression that he is a Medical Technologist without holding a
valid certificate of registration;
j. corporate body who shall allow anyone in his employ who is not
a registered medical technologist
k. Any person or corporate body who shall violate the rules and
regulations of the Board
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30. Separability Clause. Section 31. Repealing Clause. Section 32. Effectivity.Approved, June 21, 1969.
 RA
5527: An Act Requiring the Registration of
Medical Technologist, Defining Their Practice and
for other Purposes
 AO 2007-0027: Revised Rules and Regulations
governing the Licensure and Regulation of Clinical
Laboratories in the Philippines
 RA 7719: An Act Promoting Voluntary Blood
Donation, Providing for an Adequate Supply of
Safe Blood, Regulating Blood Banks, and Providing
Penalties for Violation Thereof
 RA 8504: Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control
Act of 1998
 RA 9165: Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of
2002
 RA.
7846: Compulsory immunization against hepatitisb for infants and children below eight (8) years old
 RA. 4359: An act to create the national
schistosomiasis control commission, authorizing the
necessary funds therefore
 RA. 8981: An act modernizing the professional
regulation commission
 RA. 7722: An act creating the commission on higher
education, appropriating funds therefor and for other
purposes
 RA. 9288: An act promulgating a comprehensive
policy and a national system for ensuring newborn
screening
AN ACT PROMULGATING A
COMPREHENSIVE POLICY AND A
NATIONAL SYSTEM FOR ENSURING
NEWBORN SCREENING
RA 9288
26. April 7, 2004
Objectives.
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1) access to newborn screening for certain heritable
conditions that can result in mental retardation, serious health
complications or death if left undetected and untreated;
2) To establish and integrate a sustainable newborn screening
system within the public health delivery system;
3) To ensure that all health practitioners are aware of the
advantages of newborn screening and of their respective
responsibilities in offering newborns the opportunity to undergo
newborn screening
4) To ensure that parents recognize their responsibility in
promoting their child's right to health and full development,
within the context of responsible parenthood, by protecting
their child from preventable causes of disability and death
through newborn screening.
Definition of Terms
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1) Comprehensive Newborn Screening System
2) 27. Follow-up: monitoring of a newborn with a heritable
condition
3) Health institutions
4) Healthcare practitioner
5) Heritable condition means any condition that can result in
mental retardation, physical deformity or death if left
undetected and untreated and which is usually inherited from
the genes of either or both biological parents of the newborn.
6) NIH
7) Newborn: 30 days old.
8) Newborn Screening means the process of collecting a few
drops of blood from the newborn onto an appropriate
collection card and performing biochemical testing for
determining if the newborn has a heritable condition.
9) Newborn Screening Center
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Newborn Screening Reference Center means
the central facility at the NIH that defines testing
and follow-up protocols, maintains an external
laboratory proficiency testing program, oversees
the national testing database and case registries,
assists in training activities in all aspects of the
program, oversees content of educational
materials and acts as the Secretariat of the Advisory
Committee on Newborn Screening.
 11) Parent education
 12) 28. Recall means a procedure for locating a
newborn with a possible heritable condition
 13) Treatment
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SEC. 5. Obligation to Inform. - Any health practitioner who
delivers, or assists in the delivery, of a newborn in the
Philippines
SEC. 6. Performance of Newborn Screening. - Newborn
screening shall be performed after twenty-four (24) hours
of life but not later than three (3) days from complete
delivery of the newborn. A newborn that must be placed
in intensive care in order to ensure survival may be
exempted from the 3-day requirement but must be tested
by seven (7) days of age.
joint responsibility of the parent(s) and the practitioner
SEC. 7. Refusal to be Tested. - religious beliefs, but shall
acknowledge in writing their understanding that refusal for
testing places their newborn at risk for undiagnosed
heritable conditions.
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SEC. 8. Continuing Education, Re-education and
Training Health Personnel. - The DOH, with the
assistance of the NIH and other government agencies,
professional societies and non-government
organizations, shall: (i) conduct continuing information,
education, re-education and training programs for
health personnel on the rationale, benefits, procedures
of newborn screening; and (ii) disseminate information
materials on newborn screening at least annually to all
health personnel involved in material and pediatric
care.
SEC. 9. Licensing and Accreditation. - The DOH and the
Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PHIC) shall
require health institutions to provide newborn screening
services as a condition for licensure or accreditation.
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10. Lead Agency. - The DOH shall be the lead
agency in implementing this Act
 DOH: Coordinate with DILG and NIH
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11. Advisory Committee on Newborn
Screening.  review annually and recommend conditions to be
included in the newborn screening panel of
disorders;
 review and recommend the newborn screening fee
 review the report of the Newborn Screening
Reference Center on the quality assurance of the
National Screening Centers and recommend
corrective measures as deemed necessary.
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composed of eight (8) members, 29.
Secretary of Health: Chairman
(i) the Executive Director of the NIH: Vice Chairperson
(ii) an Undersecretary of the DILG
(iii) the Executive Director of the Council for the Welfare
of Children
(iv) the Director of the Newborn Screening Reference
Center
(v) three (3) representatives appointed by the Secretary
of Health who shall be a pediatrician, obstetrician,
endocrinologist, family physician, nurse or midwife, from
either the public or private sector.
three (3) representatives: term of three (3) years
The Committee shall meet at least twice a year.
The NIH shall serve as the Secretariat of the Committee.
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SEC. 12. Establishment and Accreditation of Newborn
Screening Centers. - The DOH shall ensure that
Newborn Screening Centers are strategically located in
order to be accessible to the relevant public
At a minimum, every Newborn Screening Center shall:
(i) have a certified laboratory performing all tests
included in the newborn screening program
(ii) have a recall/follow up programs for infants found
positive for any and all of the heritable conditions
(iii) be supervised and staffed by trained personnel who
have been duly qualified by the NIH
(iv) submit to periodic announced or unannounced
inspections by the Reference Center
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SEC. 13. Establishment of a Newborn Screening Reference
Center. The 30. NIH shall establish a Newborn Screening
Reference Center, which shall be responsible for the
national testing database and case registries, training,
technical assistance and continuing education for
laboratory staff in all Newborn Screening Centers.
SEC. 14. Quality Assurance. - The NIH Newborn Screening
Reference Center shall be responsible: good laboratory
practice standards for newborn screening centers,
including establishing an external laboratory proficiency
testing and certification program.
It shall also act as the principal repository of technical
information relating to newborn screening standards and
practices, and shall provide technical assistance to
newborn screening centers needing such assistance.
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SEC. 15. Database. All Newborn Screening Centers shall coordinate with the NIH
Newborn Screening Reference Center for consolidation of
patient databases.
SEC. 16. Newborn Screening Fees. The PHIC shall include cost of newborn screening in its benefits
package.
four percent (4%) to the DOH's Centers for Health
Development or its future equivalent to be spent solely for
follow-up services, education and other activities directly
related to the provision of newborn screening services;
four percent (4%) to the Newborn Screening Centers for
human resource development and equipment maintenance
and upgrading
four percent (4%) to the NIH Newborn Screening Reference
Center for overall supervision, training and continuing
education, maintenance of national database, quality
assurance program and monitoring of the national program
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4359 - AN ACT TO
CREATE THE NATIONAL
SCHISTOSOMIASIS CONTROL
COMMISSION, AUTHORIZING THE
NECESSARY FUNDS THEREOF
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National Schistosomiasis Control
Program is hereby created under the
Department of Health to serve as a liaison
agency between the government of the
Philippines and the WHO/UNICEF, and as a
coordinating body to ensure the concerted
effort of various agencies concerned in
planning and implementing a
comprehensive program for schistosomiasis
control in endemic and potentially endemic
areas of the country
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The membership of the Commission shall be
composed of the following:
The Secretary of Health as chairman,
the Secretary of Education, the Secretary of
Agriculture and Natural Resources, the Secretary
of Public Works and Communications, the
Chairman, National Economic Council, the
Social Welfare Administrator, the Commissioner
of Agricultural Productivity, the Director General
of Program Implementation Agency, the
National Irrigation Administrator, the Presidential
Assistant on Community Development, the
General Manager, National Waterworks &
Sewerage Authority, the Budget Commissioner,
and the President, Philippine Medical
Association
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chairman may designate the
technical head of the schistosomiasis
control program as executive secretary of
the Commission.
 He may also secure the services on detail
basis of officials and employees of other
branches and agencies of the
government to assist the Commission in
the discharge of its duties and functions.
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The Commission shall create an executive
committee and such other committees or subcommittees as may be necessary for the effective
and efficient performance of its duties and proper
exercise of its powers and responsibilities.
Under the executive committee there shall be
created the secretariat and the necessary
personnel provided therefor to carry out the
administrative and general services functions of
the National Schistosomiasis Control Commission
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members of the National
Schistosomiasis Control Commission will
serve in honorary capacity and shall
receive no compensation or
remuneration, except traveling expenses
and per diems when attending sessions of
the Commission, its committees and subcommittees in such amount and under
such conditions as the Secretary of Health
may prescribe.
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The National Schistosomiasis Control Commission
shall have the following powers and duties:
(a) Formulate and carry out a comprehensive
national schistosomiasis control program.
(b) Foster effective exchange of information
and coordination of projects, programs and
activities of various agencies connected with
schistosomiasis control.
(c) Establish effective liaison with participating
agencies.
(d) Submit recommendations to the President
on administrative or legislative measures that will
effectively carry out the national control
program for the disease
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The Commission, its committees and sub-committees
shall meet regularly and may hold such special
meetings as the exigencies of the undertaking may
demand.
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To carry out the provisions of this Act, the sum of two
hundred thousand pesos is hereby authorized to be
appropriated out of any funds in the National
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, which sum shall
be placed at the disposal of the national
schistosomiasis control program in the Philippines
Approved: June 19, 1965
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