PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 1534
FURTHER AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT No. 5527 AS AMENDED BY
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 496 OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE PHILIPPINE MEDICAL
TECHNOLOGY ACT OF 1969
WHEREAS, Presidential
Decree No. 498 amended certain sections of Republic Act No. 5527 otherwise
known as the Philippine Medical Technology Act of 1969.
WHEREAS, in the
implementation of said decree, certain sections thereof have been found to
hamper or render effective certain functions and duties of the Department of
Education and Culture and the Department of Health and;
WHEREAS, the aforesaid
Decree contains provisions which prejudice the practice of anatomic and
clinical pathology by qualified physicians thus negating one of the primary
objectives of the original Medical Act of 1969;
NOW, THEREFORE, I ,
FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the power
vested in me by the Constitution, hereby order and decree:
Section 1
Section 3 of Republic
Act No. 5527 as amended by Presidential Decree No. 498 is hereby amended to
read as follows:
Section 3
Council of Medical Technology Education, its composition
There
is hereby established a Council of Medical Technology Education hereafter
referred to as the Council, which shall be composed of the Director of Higher
Education as Chairman, the Chairman of Professional Regulation Commission as
Vice Chairman; and the Director of the Bureau of Research and Laboratories of
the Department of Health, the Chairman and two members of the Board of Medical
Technology, a representative of the Deans of Schools of Medical Technology and
Public Health, and the Presidents of the Philippine Society of Pathologists and
the Philippine Association of Medical Technologists, as members.
Section 2
Paragraph 3, Section 8
of Republic Act No. 5527 as amended is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 8
Qualification of Examiners
No
person shall be appointed as member of the Medical Technology Board unless he
or she: xxx is a qualified Pathologist, or a duly registered Medical
Technologist of the Philippines with the degree of Bachelor of Science in
Medical Technology/Bachelor of Science in Hygiene/Public Health; xxx
Section 3
Subparagraph (g) and
(i) of Section 11 of Republic Act No. 5527 as amended, are hereby repealed.
Section 4
Section 13 of Republic
Act No. 5527 as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
Section 13
Accreditation of Schools of Medical Technology and of
Training Laboratories
The
Department of Education and Culture shall approve schools of Medical Technology
in accordance with the provision of this Act, as amended, in conjunction with
the Board of Medical Technology. The Department of Health thru the Bureau of
Research and Laboratories shall approve laboratories for medical technology
students or post graduate trainees in conjunction with the Board of Medical.
The laboratories shall satisfactory evidence that they possess qualified
personnel and are properly equipped to carry out laboratory procedures commonly
required in the following fields: Clinical Chemistry, Microbiology, Serology,
Parasitology and Histopathologic Techniques and that the scope of activities of
said laboratories offer sufficient training in said laboratory procedures.
Section 5
Section 12 of
Presidential Decree No. 498 is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 12
Repealing Clause
All
those Executive Orders, Decrees, Rules and Regulations, or parts thereof
inconsistent with the provisions of this Decree are hereby repealed, amended or
modified accordingly: provided, however, that nothing in this Decree shall
construed as repealing or amending any portion of the Medical Act of 1959
(Republic Act No. 2382, as amended by Republic Ac No. 4224), and the Clinical
Laboratory Act of 1966 (Republic Act No. 4688) and the Blood Banking Law of
1956 (Republic Act No. 1517) and the Rules and Regulations issued pursuant to
these laws.
Section 6
Effectivity
This decree shall take
effect immediately.
Done in the City of
Manila, this 11th day of June, the year of our Lord, nineteen
hundred and seventy eight.
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