RA 1517

Question 1

RA 1517

Answer 1

AN ACT REGULATING THE COLLECTION, PROCESSING AND SALE OFHUMAN BLOOD, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF BLOOD BANKS AND BLOODPROCESSING LABORATORIES

Question 2

In order to promote public health, it is declared a national policy to prevent trafficking in human blood and its products and derivatives.

Answer 2

Section 1

Question 3

Definition of Terms

Answer 3

Section 2

Question 4

Means human blood, processed or unprocessed, and includes its products and derivatives.

Answer 4

Blood

Question 5

includes corporations, partnerships, associations, and organizations

Answer 5

Person

Question 6

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

It shall be the unlawful for any person to establish or operate a blood bank or blood processing laboratory, or to collect or process blood if he is not a licensed physician, or to sell blood collected from another person, even if authorized by the latter, without first securing a license from the Department of Health

Answer 7

Section 3

Question 8

That in cases of emergency, blood transfusion shall be allowed under the responsibility of the _________ without such license

Answer 8

attending physician

Question 9

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 _______ from the date of the issuance of the rules and regulations provided for in section five hereof

Answer 9

sixty days or two months

Question 10

Blood banks and processing laboratories shall be operated on a non-profit basis. Blood collecting or processing by other blood collectors or processors or by individual 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 10

Section 4

Question 11

Blood banks and processing laboratories shall be operated on a _______

Answer 11

non-profit basis

Question 12

The Secretary 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, storage, transportation, and sale, and a reasonable allowance for spoilage, which shall be considered as part of the cost of blood.

Answer 12

Section 5

Question 13

Any person who violates any provision of this Act or of the rules and regulations issued thereunder shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one month and not more than one year or by a fine of not less than one hundred pesos and not more than one thousand pesos or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

Answer 13

Section 6

Question 14

Fine

Answer 14

imprisonment for not less than one month and not more than one year or by a fine of not less than one hundred pesos and not more than one thousand pesos or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the cour

Question 15

This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 16, 1956

Answer 15

Section 7

Question 16

Effectivity of RA 1517

Answer 16

June 16, 1956