R.A 7170 Flashcards
Date of approval of RA 7170
January 7, 1992
Term of RA 7170
Corazon C. Aquino
How many sections are in RA 7170?
19
An act authorizing the legacy or donation of all or part of a human body after death for specified purposes.
RA 7170
TITLE: “ORGAN DONATION ACT OF 1991”
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Section 1
Definition of terms.
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Section 2
A facility licensed, accredited or approved under the law for storage of human bodies or parts thereof.
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Organ bank storage facility
A deceased individual, and includes a still-born infant or fetus.
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Decedent
An individual who makes a legacy of all or part of his body.
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Testator
An individual authorized under this Act to donate all or part of the body of a decedent.
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Donor
A hospital licensed, accredited or approved under the law, and includes a hospital operated by the Government.
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Hospital
Includes transplantable organs, tissues, eyes, bones, arteries, blood, other fluids and other portions of the human body.
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Part
An individual, corporation, estate, trust, partnership, association, the Government or any of its subdivisions, agencies or instrumentalities, including government owned or -controlled corporations; or any other legal entity.
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Person
A physician or surgeon licensed or authorized to practice medicine under the laws of the Republic of the Philippines.
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Physician/Surgeon
The persons enumerated in Section 4(a) of this Act.
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“Immediate family” of the decedent
The irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or the irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem.
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Death
Person who may execute a legacy.
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Sec 3
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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Section 3: Person who may execute a legacy
Person who may execute donation.
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Section 4
Any of the following persons, in the order of priority 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:
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Section 4: Person who may execute a donation
Examination of the human body or part thereof.
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Section 5
A legacy or 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.
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Section 5: Examination of the human body or part thereof
Examination of the human body or part thereof (continuation).
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Section 5
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: Examination of the human body or part thereof. (continuation)
For medical or dental education, research, advancement of medical or dental science, therapy or transplantation.
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Any hospital, physician or surgeon
For education, research, advancement of medical or dental science, or therapy.
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Any accredited medical or dental school, college, or university.
For medical or dental education, research, therapy, or transplantation.
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Any organ bank storage facility
For therapy or transplantation needed by him.
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Any specified individual
Duty of hospitals.
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Section 7
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.
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Section 7: Duty of hospitals
Manner of executing a legacy.
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Section 8
Manner of executing a donation.
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Section 9
Persons authorized authorized to remove transplantable organs.
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Section 10
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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Section 10: Persons authorized to remove transplantable organs
Delivery of document of legacy or donation.
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Section 11
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.
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Section 11: Delivery of document of legacy or donation
Amendment or revocation of legacy or donation.
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Section 12
Rights and duties after death.
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Section 13
International sharing of human organ or tissues.
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Section 14
Sharing of human organs or tissues shall be made only through exchange programs duly approved by the Department of Health:
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Section 14: International sharing human organs or tissues
Information drive
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Section 15
Rules and regulations.
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Section 16
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 15: Rules and regulation
[3] Cancelling the legacy
- Written consent
- Oral statement (with 2 witnesses]
- Through the attending physician
Living donor
[R.A]
RA 9208
[5] Person who may execute a donation
- Spouse
- Son or daughter of legal age
- Either parent
- Brother or sister of legal; or
- Guardian over the person of the decedent at the time of his death
