ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER
No. 291 series of 1976
AMENDING SECTION 7 AND SECTION 13 SUBSECTION (a) OF
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 156 OF 1971 CONCERNING REQUIREMENTS FOR A BLOOD BANK
AND/OR BLOOD PROCESSING LABORATORY
Section 1
Section 7 of Administrative Order No. 156, series of
1971, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section
7
No person is permitted to
operate, manage or supervise a blood bank and/or blood processing laboratory
unless he or she, (1) is a licensed physician duly registered with the Boar of
Medical Examiners of the Republic of the Philippines to practice the medical
profession in the country; (2) must have had training in blood bank operations
in accredited blood banking institutions and (3) be certified in competency by
a specialty board
Section 2
Section 13 subsection (a) of Administrative Order No. 156
series of 1971, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 13
Requirements for a Blood Bank
and/or Blood processing laboratory
(a) Personnel
Blood banks and/or blood
processing laboratories shall be under the direction and supervision of
physicians as provided for in Section 7. All medical technologists and medical
laboratory technicians must be registered with the Board of Medical Technology.
The physician–in–charge shall be authorized to head, manage, or supervise no
more than two (2) blood banks contiguously located in the particular area. The
physician–in–charge shall be authorized to head, manage or supervise only one
blood bank with outlets.
In hiring of personnel, the
following should be observed:
(1) For
blood banks and/or blood processing laboratories performing medical and
physical screening of no more than twenty (20) donors per extraction day, at
least one medical technologist should be employed for any additional twenty
(20) donors per extraction day for a fraction thereof another medical
technologist should be hired.
(2) A
medical laboratory technician may, however, perform the workload of mentioned
above provided that the medical laboratory technician is supervised by a
medical technologist. A medical technologist can supervise only two medical
laboratory technicians at a time.
(3) An
assistant physician may be hired to assist the pathologist in the medical and
physical screening of the donors. He or she cannot, however, supervise the
performance of laboratory tests unless he or she is also qualified to head the
laboratory under the existing Rules and Regulations.
Section 3
These amendments shall take effect upon approval and
publication as required.
CLEMENTE S. GATMAITAN, M.D., M.P.H.
Secretary of Health
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