CLIN LAB Flashcards
AN ACT REGULATING THE OPERATION AND
MAINTENANCE OF CLINICAL LABORATORIES AND
REQUIRING THE REGISTRATION OF THE SAME WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, PROVIDING PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
RA 4688
When was RA 4688 approved ?
June 18, 1966
Who approved the RA 4688?
President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos
Any person, firm or corporation, operating and maintaining a clinical laboratory in which body fluids, tissues, secretions, excretions and radioactivity from beings or animals are analyzed for the determination of the presence of pathologic organisms, processes and/or conditions in the persons or animals from which they were obtained, shall register and secure a license annually at the office of the Secretary of Health: provided, that government hospital laboratories doing routine or minimum laboratory examinations shall be exempt from the provisions of this section if their services are extensions of government regional or central laboratories.
Section 1
Register and secure a license from the office of the Secretary of Health.
Section 1
It shall be unlawful for any person to be professionally incharge of a registered clinical laboratory unless he is a licensed physician duly qualified in laboratory medicine and authorized by the Secretary of Health, such authorization to be renewed annually. No license shall be granted or renewed by the Secretary of Health for the operation and maintenance of a clinical laboratory unless such laboratory is under the administration, direction and supervision of an authorized physician, as provided for in the preceding paragraph.
Section 2
Laboratory must be under the supervision of an authorized physician/ pathologist by the Secretary of Health.
Section 2
The Secretary of Health, through the Bureau of Research and Laboratories shall be charged with the responsibility of strictly enforcing the provisions of this Act and shall be authorized to issue such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out its provisions.
Section 3
Laboratory should be subjected through an inspection by the Bureau of Research and Laboratories - annually.
Section 3
Any person, firm or corporation who violates any provisions of this Act or the rules and regulations issued thereunder by the Secretary of Health shall be punished with imprisonment for not less than one month but not more than one year, or by a fine of not less than one thousand pesos nor more than five thousand pesos, or both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.
Section 4
Violation of provision shall be punished with: imprisonment
1 month - 1 year imprisonment
Violation of provision shall be punished with: fine
1000 - 5000 pesos fine
A facility subdivided into different sections where common diagnostic procedures are done by specialized health professionals
Clinical Laboratory
Clinical Laboratory is regulated by the _______________________ and Services under DOH. To prevent the operation of substandard, improperly managed and poorly equipped clinical laboratories
Bureau of Health Facilities
Ownership: Operated and maintained by a government unit
Government
Ownership: Owned, operated, and established by any individual, corporation, association, or organization
Private