AMENDMENTS OF

REPUBLIC ACT
5527
Kim G. Sarong
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6138

• An act to amend certain

sections of RA 5527, known as
the Philippine Medical
Technology Act of 1969
 SECTION 1

1. Section 16: Qualification for Examination — Refer to

Lecture Notes on RA 5527
2. Section 21: Issuance of Certificate of Registration
• No certificate shall be issued to any successful applicant
who has not attained the age of twenty-one years
• All certificates shall be signed by all the members of the
Board and attested by its Secretary.
3. Section 22: Fees. — Refer to Lecture Notes on RA
5527
 SECTION 2

• Effectivity: June 21, 1969

• Approved: August 31, 1970
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 498

• Amending sections 2, 3, 4, 7, 8,
11, 13, 16, 17, 21 and 29 of RA
5527, also known as the
Philippine Medical Technology
Act of 1969
 REASONS

• some provisions were found to be prejudicial to

the interests of some medical technology
practitioners who would otherwise qualify for
registration as medical technologist without
examination; and
• some provisions were inadequate to meet the
primary objectives of maintaining the high
standard of the medical technology profession
 SECTION 1

• Section 2: Definition of Terms

 PRACTICE OF MEDICAL
TECHNOLOGY
• A person shall be deemed to be in the practice of
medical technology within the meaning of this Act,
who shall for a fee, salary or other compensation
or reward paid or given directly or indirectly
through another, renders any of the following
professional services for the purpose of aiding the
physician in the diagnosis, study and treatment of
diseases and in the promotion of health in general:
1. Examination of tissues, secretions and excretions of the
human body and body fluids by various electronic,
chemical, miscroscopic, bacteriologic, hematologic,
serologic, immunologic, nuclear, and other laboratory
procedures and techniques either manual or automated;
2. Blood banking procedures and techniques
3. Parasitologic, Mycologic and Microbiologic procedures
and techniques;
4. Histopatholgic and Cytotechnology; provided that
nothing in this paragraph shall inhibit a duly registered
medical laboratory technician from performing
histopathologic techniques and procedures
5. Clinical research involving patients or human
beings requiring the use of and/or application of
medical technology knowledge and procedures;
6. Preparations and standardization of reagents,
standards, stains and others, provided such
reagents, standards, stains and others are
exclusively for the use of their laboratory;
7. Clinical laboratory quality control;
8. Collection and preservation of specimens,
 MEDICAL LABORATORY
TECHNICIANS
• A person certified and registered with
the Board as qualified to assist a
medical technologist and/or qualified
pathologist in the practice of medical
technology as defined in this Act
 SECTION 2

• Section 3: Council of Medical

Technology Education, Its
Composition
Chairman: Commissioner of the PRC
Vice-Chairman: Chairman of the Board of Medical
Technology
Members:
• 2 members of the Board of Medical Technology
• Director of Private Education or its duly
authorized representative
• Director of the Bureau of Research and
Laboratories of DOH
• Representative of the deans or heads of the private
schools of medical technology
 SECTION 3

• Section 4: Compensation and

Traveling Expenses of Council
Members
• Chairman – P50.00 per diem
• Members – P25.00

NOTE:
a) Regardless of whether or not they
receive regular salaries from the
government
b) Chairman and members of the Council
shall be entitled to traveling expenses in
connection with their official duties
 SECTION 4

• Section 7: Medical Technology Board

• under the Professional Regulation
Commission
• hold office for three (3) years after
appointment or until their successors shall
have been appointed and duly qualified

NOTE: In case of death, disability, or

removal of a member of the Board, his
successor shall serve only the balance of his
terms
• SECTION 5
Section 8: Qualification of Examiners —
Refer to Lecture Notes on RA 5527

• SECTION 6
Section 11: Functions and Duties of the
Board — Refer to Lecture Notes on RA
5527
 SECTION 7

• Section 13. Accreditation of Schools

of Medical Technology and of
Training Laboratories
• Department of Education and Culture – approve
schools of medical technology
• Professional Regulation Commission – approve
laboratories for accreditations as training laboratories
for medical technology students or post graduate
trainees upon satisfactory evidence that said
laboratories possess qualified personnel and are
properly equipped to carry out laboratory procedures
commonly required in the following fields:
bacteriology, serology, parasitology, hematology,
biochemistry and blood banking, and that the scope
of activities of said laboratory offer sufficient training
in said laboratory procedure
 SECTION 8

• Section 16: Qualification for Examination

— Refer to Lecture Notes on RA 5527
 SECTION 9

• Section 17: Scope of Examination —

Refer to Lecture Notes on RA 5527
 BOARD

• prepare the schedule of subjects for examination

and to submit the same to the Commissioner of the
Professional Regulation Commission for
publication at least thirty (30) days before the date
of examination
• compute the general average of each examinee
according to the above-mentioned relative weights
of each subject
 BOARD

• change, add to or remove from the list of

subjects or weights above as progress in the
science of Medical Technology may require,
subject to the prior approval of the Professional
Regulation Commission, and publication of the
change or amendment at least three (3) months
prior to the date of examination in which the same
is to take effect
 SECTION 10

Section 21: Issuance of Certificate of

Registration
• P115.00 – application fee for RMT
• P50.00 – application fee for RMLT
 SECTION 11

• Section 29: Penal Provisions

• (j) Any person or corporate body who shall allow
anyone in his employ who is not a registered
medical technologist/medical laboratory technician
to engage in the practice of medical technology or
recommend for appointment anyone to the position
of medical technologist/medical laboratory
technician knowing that he is not registered as
such.
• SECTION 12: Repealing Clause

• SECTION 13
Approved: June 28, 1974
 PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1534

• Further amending RA 5527 as

amended by PD 498 otherwise
known as the Philippine Medical
Technology Act of 1969
 REASONS

• certain sections thereof have been found to hamper or

render ineffective certain functions and duties of the
Department of Education and Culture and the
Department of Health; and
• 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 1959
• SECTION 1
Section 3: Council of Medical Technology
Education; Its Composition — Refer to
Lecture Notes on RA 5527

• SECTION 2
Section 8: Qualification of Examiners —
Refer to Lecture Notes on RA 5527
 SECTION 3

• Subparagraphs (g) and (i) of Section

11 of Republic Act No. 5527 as
amended are hereby repealed.
 SECTION 4

• Section 13: Accreditation of Schools

of Medical Technology and of
Training Laboratories
 Department of Health (through the
Bureau of Research and
Laboratories)

• approve laboratories for accreditation as

training laboratories for medical technology
students or post-graduate trainees in
conjunction with the Board of Medical
Technology
 Required sections in the
laboratory:
• Clinical • Blood Banking
Chemistry • Clinical
• Microbiology Microscopy
• Serology • Histopathologic
• Parasitology Techniques
• Hematology
 SECTION 5

• Section 12 of Presidential Decree

No. 498 is hereby amended to
read as follows:
SECTION 12: REPEALING CLAUSE.
“All those Executive Order, 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 be construed as repealing or
amending any portion of the Medical Act of 1959
(Republic Act No. 2382, as amended by Republic Act
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

• Approved: June 11, 1978

 Library Work

1. List the accreditation requirements for

a Training Laboratory for Medical
Technology interns
2. Enumerate the inclusions for Training
Programs in Medical Technology
3. Give the different classification of
Laboratories according to function
 Library Work

4. In table form, list the required

equipment/minimum space (in sq. m.)
in all categories of clinical laboratory.
Primary Secondary Tertiary

Space in sq. m.

Equipment or
instrument
 Library Work

5. Write the requirement and procedures for

application of permit to construct and
license to operate a clinical laboratory in
terms of:
 Permit to construct
 Application for new license
 Renewal of license
 Penalties