RA 7170 : Organ Donation Act of 1991 Flashcards
A facility licensed, accredited or approved under the law for storage of human bodies or parts thereof.
Organ Bank Storage Facility
An individual who makes a legacy of all or part of his body.
Testator
A deceased individual, and includes a still-born
infant or fetus.
Decedent
An individual authorized under this act to donate all or part of the body of a decedent.
Donor
A hospital licensed, accredited or approval under the law, and includes a hospital operated by the government
Hospital
Includes transplantable organs, tissues, eyes, bones, arteries, blood and other fluids
Part
An individual, corporation, estate, trust of any of its subdivisions, agencies or instrumentalities.
Person
Authorizes to practice medicine under the laws of the republic of the Philippines.
Physician / Surgeon
irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or the irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain.
Death
section 3
Person who may execute a LEGACY
section 4
Person who may execute a donation
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: (in the correct order)
spouse
son or daughter
either parent
brother/sister of legal age
guardian
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.
SECTION 5: examination of human body
Examination human body or part
sec 5
Person who may become legatees/donees
SECTION 6