Blood Bank Law (RA1517)

Question 1

Blood Bank Act

Answer 1

REPUBLIC ACT No. 1517

Question 2

Blood Bank Law (RA1517) Title

Answer 2

An Act Regulating the Collection, Processing and Sale of Human Blood, and the Establishment and Operation of Blood Banks and Blood Processing Laboratories

Question 3

Blood Bank Act Repealed by:

Answer 3

Republic Act No. 7719

Question 4

Section 2. As used in this Act:
means human blood, processed or unprocessed, and includes its products and derivatives.

Answer 4

Blood

Question 5

Section 2. As used in this Act:
includes corporations, partnerships, associations, and organizations.

Answer 5

Person

Question 6

Section 2. As used in this Act:
means the actual purchase price of unprocessed blood and its handling charges, such as those for its collection, processing, storage, transportation, and sale, and a reasonable allowance for spoilage.

Answer 6

Cost

Question 7

Section 1. In order to promote public health, it is declared a national ______ to prevent ________in human blood and its products and derivatives.

Answer 7

policy; trafficking

Question 8

Section 3. It shall be the unlawful for any person to establish or operate a blood bank or blood processing laboratory, or to collect or ______ blood if he is not a licensed ________, or to ____ blood collected from another person, even if authorized by the latter, without first securing a license from the Department of Health: Provided, That in cases of ___________, blood _________ shall be allowed under the responsibility of the attending physician without such license: And Provided, further, That persons operating blood banks and blood processing laboratories on the date of the approval of this Act may continue to operate and same if they secure such license within _____ days from the date of the issuance of the rules and regulations provided for in section five hereof.

Answer 8

process; physician; sell; emergency; transfusion; sixty

Question 9

Section 4. Blood banks and processing laboratories shall be operated on a _________ basis. Blood collecting or processing by other blood collectors or processors or by __________ physicians shall also be on a non-profit basis. Blood shall be sold by such banks and laboratories, other blood collectors or processors, and individual physicians at cost.

Answer 9

non-profit; individual

Question 10

Section 5. The ___________ of Health is charged with the responsibility of strictly enforcing this Act, and shall issue such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out its provisions, including rules and regulations prescribing, from time to time, the maximum ceilings for handling charges of blood, such as charges for its collection, processing, ________, transportation, and ____, and a reasonable allowance for spoilage, which shall be considered as part of the cost of blood.

Answer 10

Secretary; storage; sale

Question 11

Section 6. Any person who violates any provision of this Act or of the rules and regulations issued thereunder shall be punished by ____________for not less than ____month and not more than ____ year or by a fine of not less than ____ ________ pesos and not more than ___ __________pesos or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

Answer 11

imprisonment; one; one; one hundred; one thousand

Question 12

Approved on:

Answer 12

June 16, 1956