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Arepublic Act No 1517

This document summarizes Republic Act No. 1517, which regulates the collection, processing, and sale of human blood and establishes blood banks and processing laboratories in the Philippines. The key points are: 1) It declares preventing trafficking in human blood and its products as national policy to promote public health. 2) It defines terms like "blood", "person", and "cost". 3) It requires anyone collecting, processing, or selling blood to obtain a license from the Department of Health, except in emergencies. It also establishes requirements for blood banks and laboratories. 4) It mandates blood banks, laboratories, and individual physicians operate on a non-profit basis and sell blood at

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Arepublic Act No 1517

This document summarizes Republic Act No. 1517, which regulates the collection, processing, and sale of human blood and establishes blood banks and processing laboratories in the Philippines. The key points are: 1) It declares preventing trafficking in human blood and its products as national policy to promote public health. 2) It defines terms like "blood", "person", and "cost". 3) It requires anyone collecting, processing, or selling blood to obtain a license from the Department of Health, except in emergencies. It also establishes requirements for blood banks and laboratories. 4) It mandates blood banks, laboratories, and individual physicians operate on a non-profit basis and sell blood at

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REPUBLIC ACT NO.

1517 - AN ACT REGULATING THE COLLECTION,


PROCESSING AND SALE OF HUMAN BLOOD, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT AND
OPERATION OF BLOOD BANKS AND BLOOD PROCESSING LABORATORIES
(REPEALED BY REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7719)

Section 1. In order to promote public health, it is declared a national policy to


prevent trafficking in human blood and its products and derivatives.

Sec. 2. As used in this Act:

"Blood" means human blood, processed or unprocessed, and includes its products and
derivatives.

"Person" includes corporations, partnerships, associations, and organizations.

"Cost" means the actual purchase price of unprocessed blood and its handling charges,
such as those for its collection, processing, storage, transportation, and sale, and a
reasonable allowance for spoilage.

Sec. 3. It shall be the unlawful for any person to establish or operate a blood bank
or blood processing laboratory, or to collect or process blood if he is not a licensed
physician, or to sell blood collected from another person, even if authorized by the
latter, without first securing a license from the Department of Health: Provided, That
in cases of emergency, blood transfusion shall be allowed under the responsibility of
the attending physician without such license: And provided, further, That persons
operating blood banks and blood processing laboratories on the date of the approval
of this Act may continue to operate and same if they secure such license within sixty
days from the date of the issuance of the rules and regulations provided for in section
five hereof.

No license shall be granted or renewed by the Department of Health for the


establishment or operation of a blood bank or blood processing laboratory unless such
bank or laboratory be established or operated in accordance with accepted scientific
standards, is under the administration, direction and supervision of a licensed and
qualified physician, and blood is collected and/or processed therein by licensed
physicians or under their direct supervision and responsibility.

No license shall be granted or renewed by said Department for the collection and/or
processing of blood unless the licensee complies with the requirements hereinabove
established for blood banks and blood processing laboratories.

Sec. 4. Blood banks and processing laboratories shall be operated on a non-profit


basis. Blood collecting or processing by other blood collectors or processors or by
individual physicians shall also be on a non-profit basis. Blood shall be sold by such
banks and laboratories, other blood collectors or processors, and individual physicians
at cost.

Sec. 5. The Secretary of Health is charged with the responsibility of strictly enforcing
this Act, and shall issue such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out
its provisions, including rules and regulations prescribing, from time to time, the
maximum ceilings for handling charges of blood, such as charges for its collection,
processing, storage, transportation, and sale, and a reasonable allowance for spoilage,
which shall be considered as part of the cost of blood.

Sec. 6. Any person who violates any provision of this Act or of the rules and
regulations issued thereunder shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one
month and not more than one year or by a fine of not less than one hundred pesos
and not more than one thousand pesos or by both such fine and imprisonment in the
discretion of the court.

Sec. 7. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 16, 1956

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