CLINICAL LABORATORY LAW OF 1966 Flashcards
It is 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 is the president that approved RA 4688?
Ferdinand Edralin Marcos
What is the main purpose of the law?
preventing the operation and maintenance of substandard, improperly managed and poorly equipped clinical laboratories
When are Clinical Laboratories renewed?
anually
What is the total number of sections for RA 4688?
8
what section of RA 4688 that the clinical laboratory shall register and secure a license annually at the office of the Secretary of Health wherein government hospital laboratories are exempted if their services are extensions of government regional or central laboratories?
Section 1
It shall be unlawful for any person to be professionally in-charge of a registered clinical laboratory unless he is a licensed physician duly qualified in laboratory medicine authorized by the Secretary of Health
Section 2
No license shall be granted or renewed by the Secretary of Health for operations and maintenance of a clinical laboratory
unless such laboratory is under the administration, direction and supervision of an authorized physician
Revised rules and regulation of clinical laboratories in the Philippines; approved august 22, 2007
Administrative No. 2007-0027
Specific office to give license to operate
Health Facilities and Services Regulatory Bureau
Operated and maintained, partially or whollt by the government
Government Ownership
Individual, corporation, association or organization
Private Ownership
Tests that are commonlu performed in the laboratory
Clinical Pathology
It involves anayzing tissues, cadaver and cells
Anatomic Pathology
