This was a very long assignment in Med Tech Laws and Bioethics. But I managed to finish copying and editing it from a site. J
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5527 (As amended by RA 6132, PD 498 and PD 1534.)
An Act Requiring the Registration of Medical Technologist, Defining Their Practice, and for Other Purposes
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
Section 1. Title . – This Act may be also cited as the Philippine Medical Technology Act of 1969.
Section 2. Definition of Terms. - As used in this Act, the following terms shall mean:
a. Practice of Medical Technology - A person shall be deemed to be in the practice ofmedical technology within the meaning of this Act, who shall for a fee, salary or othercompensation or reward paid or given directly or indirectly through another, renders anyof the following professional services for the purpose of aiding the physician in thediagnosis, study and treatment of diseases and in the promotion of health in general:
1. Examination of tissues, secretions and excretions of the human body and bodyfluids by various electronic, chemical, microscopic, bacteriologic, hematologic,serologic, immunologic, nuclear, and other laboratory procedures and techniqueseither manual or automated;
2. Blood banking procedures and techniques;
3. Parasitologic, Mycologic and Microbiologic procedures and techniques;
4. Histopathologic and Cytotechnology; provided that nothing in this paragraph shallinhibit a duly registered medical laboratory technician from performinghist op at ho log ic techniques and procedures.
5. Clinical research involving patients or human beings requiring the use of and/orapplication of medical technology knowledge and procedures;
6. Preparations and standardization of reagents, standards, stains and others,provided such reagents, standards, stains and others are exclusively for the use oftheir laboratory;
7. Clinical laboratory quality control;
8. Collection and preservation of specimens;
Provided, That any person who has passed the corresponding Board examination for the practice of a profession already regulated by existing law, shall not besubject to the provisions of the last four preceding paragraphs if the performance of such acts or services is merely incidental to his profession.
b. Pathologist - A duly registered physician who is specially trained in methods of laboratory medicine, or the gross and microscopic study and interpretation of tissues, secretion and excretions of the human body and its functions in order to diagnose disease, follow its course, determine the effectivity of treatment, ascertain cause of death and advance medicine by means of research….
And blah, blah, blah. Ten pages long.
