History of medicine in the Philippines (Dates)

Question 1

Medicine in the Spanish Philippines

Answer 1

1600s-1800s

Question 2

Year where true pharmacies established in Manila

Answer 2

1830

Question 3

Year when the faculty of pharmacy formally established

Answer 3

1871

Question 4

Year of the first hospital in Cebu

Answer 4

1565

Question 5

Hospital Real de Espanoles (Royal Spanish Hospital)

Answer 5

1577-1898

Question 6

Hospital de los Indios Naturales (Hospital of Native Indians)

Answer 6

1577-1898

Question 7

Hospital de Santa Ana (St. Anne Hospital)

Answer 7

1577-1898

Question 8

Hospital de la Misericordia (Mercy Hospital)

Answer 8

1578-1656

Question 9

Hospital of San Juan de Dios (St. John of God Hospital)

Answer 9

1656-present

Question 10

Hospital de San Lazaro (Hospital of St. Lazarus)

Answer 10

1656-present

Question 11

Hospital de San Pedro Martir (St. Peter the Martyr Hospital)

Answer 11

1656-present

Question 12

Hospital de San Gabriel (St. Gabriel Hospital)

Answer 12

1599-1774

Question 13

Hospital del Espiritu Santo (Holy Spirit Hospital)

Answer 13

1591-1662

Question 14

Hospital de Nuestra Señora de las Aguas Santas de Mainit [Our Lady of the Holy Waters Hospital in Mainit (Hot springs)]

Answer 14

1597-1727 and rebuilt in 1877 -present

Question 15

Hospital Santiago (St. James’s Hospital)

Answer 15

1611-1691

Question 16

Hospital de San Lazaro (Hospital of St. Lazarus)

Answer 16

1873-present

Question 17

Year when the Central Board of Vaccination was established

Answer 17

1806

Question 18

Where caraballa calves as well horse, goat, deer, and monkey were used for producing vaccine.

Answer 18

1883

Question 19

Year when report of Don Juan Grau y Monfalcon attested the procurement of “valuable drugs” from a Cambodian king in 1600.

Answer 19

1637

Question 20

Report of Bishop Domingo de Salazar, OP, confirmed the existence of shops with doctors and apothecaries managed by the Chinese in the Parian of Spanish Manila.

Answer 20

1590

Question 21

When was UST erected and accomplishments?

Answer 21

April 28, 1611

Question 22

Year when UST expanded curriculum with the San Juan de Dios Hospital serving as training ground for the UST medical students

Answer 22

1871

Question 23

Year when Rizal performed the first cataract operation in the Phil on his
mother in

Answer 23

1887

Question 24

Establishment of Provincial and Municipal health boards

Answer 24

July 1, 1901

Question 25

When UP college of Med was established

Answer 25

When UP college of Med was established

Question 26

When UP-PGH was constructed

Answer 26

1910

Question 27

Year when creation of Philippine Health Service

Answer 27

1915

Question 28

Year when the organization of the Philippine Medical Association was created

Answer 28

1939

Question 29

Year when a provisional government was instituted | by the Japanese occupation army

Answer 29

Sept 30, 1943

Question 30

Year when Afable College of Medicine and Surgery on the verge of closure, but students appealed for the continuance of its operation

Answer 30

1946

Question 31

Year when The College of Medicine of Manila Central University came into existence

Answer 31

1947

Question 32

Rural health units were created

Answer 32

1951

Question 33

Far Eastern University (FEU)

Answer 33

1952

Question 34

University of the East

Answer 34

1956

Question 35

Cebu Institute of Medicine

Answer 35

1957

Question 36

Decentralization, consultation and advisory | services were deemed imperative

Answer 36

1953

Question 37

Various specialty boards were created

Answer 37

1960

Question 38

The Philippine Medical Care Act was approved by | Congress

Answer 38

1969

Question 39

Various types of managed care facilities emerged

Answer 39

1970

Question 40

Acupuncture publicized and practiced

Answer 40

1973

Question 41

The government immunization program had for its | goal a fully immunized child

Answer 41

1976

Question 42

DOH was renamed Ministry of Health

Answer 42

1978

Question 43

The National Tuberculosis Control Program was | relaunched.

Answer 43

1981

Question 44

The Research Institute for Tropical Medicine | opened

Answer 44

1981

Question 45

Obstetrics Specialty Board and the Phi

Answer 45

1961

Question 46

College of Physicians | Board of Medicine

Answer 46

1966

Question 47

Bureau of Food and Drugs was created

Answer 47

1982

Question 48

Phil government and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a MOA for a new & completely upgraded food and drug laboratory facility in Alabang, Muntinlupa.

Answer 48

1985

Question 49

The Philippine Society of Teachers in Family | Medicine

Answer 49

1987

Question 50

Congress passed RA 6675, popularly known as the | Generics Act

Answer 50

1988

Question 51

The first successful liver transplant was performed

Answer 51

August 4, 1988

Question 52

The Phil National Drug Formulary (PNDF) was | published;

Answer 52

1989

Question 53

The National Graduate School for the Health Sciences and National Institute of Health were created

Answer 53

1993

Question 54

Dr. Jorge Garcia performed the first heart transplantation

Answer 54

1993

Question 55

The National Health Insurance Act replaced the Medical Care Act of 1969, to promote health coverage for all Filipinos

Answer 55

1995

Question 56

Professor Chao Tony Chan and Dr. Enrique Ona at the NKTI, performed the first partial liver transplant from a mother to her 15-month-old child with biliary atresia

Answer 56

April 12, 1996