RA 7170 Flashcards
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Individual authorized under this act to donate all or part of the body of a decedent
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donor
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licensed or authorized to practice medicine under the laws of the Republic of the Philippines
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physician/surgeon
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Delivery of Document of Legacy or Donation
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Separability Clause
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Persons enumerated in section 4a of this Act
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“immediate family” of the decedent
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Any individual, at least eighteen (18) years of age and of sound mind, may give by way of legacy, to take effect after his death, all or part of his body for any purpose specified in Section 6 hereof
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Manner of Executing a Legacy
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The legatee or donee may accept or reject the legacy or donation as the case may be. If the legacy of donation is of a part of the body, the legatee or donee, upon the death of the testator and prior to embalming, shall effect the removal of the part, avoiding unnecessary mutilation. After removal of the part, custody of the remainder of the body vests in the surviving spouse, next of kin or other persons under obligation to dispose of the body of the decedent
Any person who acts in good faith in accordance with the terms of this Act shall not be liable for damages in any civil
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Only authorized medical practitioners in a hospital shall remove and/or transplant any organ which is authorized to be removed and/or transplanted pursuant to Section 5 hereof
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licensed, accredited, or approved under the law, and includes a hospital operated by the government
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hospital
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Rights and Duties After Death
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section 13
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Any donation by a person authorized under subsection (a) of Section 4 hereof shall be sufficient if it complies with the formalities of a donation of a movable property.
In the absence of any of the persons specified under Section 4 hereof and in the absence of any document of organ donation, the physician in charge of the patient, the head of the hospital or a designated officer of the hospital who has custody of the body of the deceased may authorize in a public document the removal from such body for the purpose of transplantation of the organ to the body of a living person.
In all donations, the death of a person from whose body an organ will be removed after his death for the purpose of transplantation to a living person, shall be diagnosed separately and certified by two (2) qualified physicians neither of whom should be:
* A member of the team of medical practitioners
* The physician attending to the recipient of the organ to be removed
* The head of hospital or the designated officer authorizing the removal of the organ
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Any of the following, person, in the order of property stated hereunder, in the absence of actual notice of contrary intentions by the decedent or actual notice of opposition by a member of the immediate family of the decedent, may donate all or any part of the decedent’s body for any purpose specified in Section 6 hereof:
* spouse
* son/daughter of legal age
* either parent
* brother/sister of legal age
* guardian
The persons authorized by sub section (a) of this section may make the donation after or immediately before death.
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section 4
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Information Drive
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section 15
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This Act shall take effect after fifteen (15) days following its publication in the Official Gazette or at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation
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section 19
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Duty of Hospital
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section 7
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Individual who makes a legacy of all or part of his body
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testator
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The provisions of this Act are hereby deemed separable. If any provision hereof should be declared invalid or unconstitutional, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect
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section 18
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All laws, decrees, ordinances, rules and regulations, executive or administrative orders, and other presidential issuance inconsistent with this Act, are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.
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section 17
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Sharing of human organs or tissues shall be made only through exchange programs duly approved by the Department of Health:
Provided, that foreign organ or tissue bank storage facilities and similar establishments grant reciprocal rights to their Philippine counterparts to draw human organs or tissues at any time
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section 14
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Includes transplantable organs, tissues, eyes, bones, arteries, blood, other fluids, and other portions of the human body
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Effectivity
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section 19
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Person(s) Authorized to Remove Transplantable Organs
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section 10
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In order that the public will obtain the maximum benefits from this Act, the Department of Health, in cooperation with institutions, such as the National Kidney Institute, civic and non-government health organizations and other health related agencies, involved in the donation and transplantation of human organs, shall undertake a public information program.
The Secretary of Health shall endeavor to persuade all health professionals, both government and private, to make an appeal for human organ donation.
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section 15
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Manner of Executing a Donation
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section 9
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Person Who May Execute a Donation
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section 4
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definition of terms
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RA 7170
- date of approval: (?)
- term: (?)
- sections: (?)
- jan. 7, 1992
- corazon aquino
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The following persons may become legatees or donees of human bodies or parts thereof for any of the purposes stated hereunder:
* Any hospital, physician or surgeon
* Any accredited medical or dental school, college or university
* Any organ bank storage facility
* Any specified individual
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A legacy of donation of all or part of a human body authorizes any examination necessary to assure medical acceptability of the legacy or donation for the purpose(s) intended.
For purposes of this Act, an autopsy shall be conducted on the cadaver of accident, trauma, or other medico-legal cases immediately after the pronouncement of death, to determine qualified and healthy human organs for transplantation and/or in furtherance of medical science
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section 5
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Deceased individual, and includes a still-born infant or fetus
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decedent
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If the will, card or other document, or an executed copy thereof, has been delivered to a specific legatee or donee, the testator or donor may amend or revoke the legacy or donation either by:
- The execution and delivery to the legatee or donee of a signed statement to that effect
- An oral statement to that effect made in the presence of two other persons and communicated to the legatee or donee
- A statement to that effect during a terminal illness or injury addressed to an attending physician and communicated to the legatee or donee
- A signed card or document to that effect found on the person or effects of the testator or donor
Any will, card or other document, or an executed copy thereof, which has not been delivered to the legatee or donee may be revoked by the testator or donor in the manner provided in subsection (a) of this Section or by destruction, cancellation or mutilation of the document and all executed copies thereof.
Any legacy made by a will may also be amended or revoked in the manner provided for amendment or revocation of wills, or as provided in subsection (a) of this Section.
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section 12
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Examination of the Human Body or Parts Thereof
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section 5
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RA 7170 is amended into (?) on (?)
- RA 7885
- july 25, 1995
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Rules and Regulations
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section 16
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- Legacy of all or part of the human body under Section 3 hereof may be made by will.
- The legacy may be made to a specified legatee or without specifying a legatee
- The testator may designate in his will, card or other document, the surgeon or physician who will carry out the appropriate procedures
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section 8
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A hospital authorized to receive organ donations or to conduct transplantation shall train qualified personnel and their staff to handle the task of introducing the organ donation program in a humane and delicate manner to the relatives of the donor-decedent enumerated in Section 4 hereof.
The hospital shall accomplish the necessary form or document as proof of compliance with the above requirement
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section 7
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Facility licensed, accredited or approved under the law for storage of human bodies or parts thereof
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organ bank storage facility
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Amendment of Revocation of Legacy or Donation
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section 12
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Person Who May Execute a Legacy
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section 3
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an act authorizing the legacy or donation of all or part of a human body after death for specified purposes
RA 7170
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Irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, or irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem
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death
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The Secretary of Health, after consultation with all health professionals, both government and private, and non-government health organizations shall promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary or proper to implement this Act.
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section 16
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Repealing Clause
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section 17
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If the legacy or donation is made to a specified legatee or donee, the will, card or other document, or an executed copy thereof, may be delivered by the testator or donor, or his authorized representative, to the legatee or donee to expedite the appropriate procedures immediately after death.
The will, card or other document, or an executed copy thereof, may be deposited in any hospital or organ bank storage facility that accepts it for safekeeping or for facilitation or procedures after death.
On the request of any interested party upon or after the testator’s death, the person in possession shall produce the document of legacy or donation for verification.
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section 11
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Individual, corporation, estate, trust, partnership, assoc., the gov’t, or any of its subdividisions, agencies or instrumentalities, including government-owned or – controlled corporations; or any other legal entitiy
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International Sharing of Human Organs or Tissues
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RA 7170
Organ Donation Act of 1991
