Medtech

• The 3 rd Medical Laboratory was the first laboratory unit to be assigned in the South West Pacific Area (SWPA)
• The unit also performed special serological, bacteriological, pathological, and preservation of pathological specimens of value to the US Army Medical Department.
• Dr Pio de Roda along with Dr Prudencia Sta Ana, conducted a training program for aspiring laboratory workers.
• When the US army left in June of 1945, the laboratory was endorsed to the National Department of Health and was non-operational until it was reopened in October of the same year by Dr Pio de Roda with the help of then Manila City Health Officer Dr Mariano Icasiano.
• The Medical Laboratory unit of the US Army provided medical services with the available laboratory supplies, supplemental laboratory examination, and epidemiological and sanitary investigations.
• The Philippine Health Service was reorganized into the Bureau of Health by 1933.
• At the end of Philippine- American War, the civilian Board of Health established by the Americans was charged into the Bureau of Health.
• The first clinical laboratory in the Philippines was established during World War II by the 6 th Infantry Division of the US army at Quirieada St., Sta Cruz, Manila.
• The University of the Philippines’s College of Public Health formally opened its Certificate of Public Health program with the aim to provide proper training to the Philippine Health Service’s medical officers.
• The Philippine Union College (PUC) in Baesa, Caloocan City (now Adventist University of the Philippines) absorbed MSH’s School of Medical Technology.
• The Manila Sanitarium and Hospital (MSH) opened the first School of Medical Technology in the Philippines under the leadership of Mrs Willa Hedrick, wife of Dr Elvin Hendrick.
• Dr Jesse Umali was the first garduate of the medical technology program.
• Japan attacked the whole Manila through aerial assult and deployment of troops just ten hours after bombing Pearl Harbor.
• The unit was tasked to perform water analyses, examination of food supplies, distribution of special reagents and solutions, culture media, and investigation of epidemics and epizootics.
• MSH started its medical intership and residency training program which was affiliated with Loma Linda University in California.
• The US forces landed in Leyte, the laboratories including the 3 rd , 5 th , and 8 th Medical Laboratories and the 19 th Medical General Laboratory were relocated to the West Pacific Area.
• Baruch Samuel Blumberg introduced the hepatitis b vaccine and his work significantly impacted medical technology.
• Andre Van Steirteghem introduced the Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (IVF) and his work significantly impacted medical technology.
• Elle Metchnihoff described phagocytes in blood and their role in fighting infection and his work significantly impacted medical technology.
• Louis Pasteur successfully produced immunity to rabies and his work significantly impacted medical technology.
• Joseph Lister demonstrated that surgical infections are cause by airborne organism and his work significantly impacted medical technology.
• August von Wasserman developed immunologic tests for syphilis and his work significantly impacted medical technology.
• Maria Francois Xavier Bichat identified organs by their types of tissue and his contribution to histology is significant.
• The University of Santo Tomas initially offered the Medical Technology course as an elective for pharmacy students in 1957.
• The Medical Technology was recognized as an official program in UST in 1961.
• Jonas Salk developed poliomyelitis vaccine and his work significantly impacted medical technology.
• Gregor Mendel enunciated his law of inherited characteristic from studies on plants.
• Ernst von Bergmann introduced steam sterilization in surgery and his work significantly impacted medical technology.
• Edward Jenner discovered vaccination to establish immunity to small pox and his contribution to immunology is significant.
• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is known as the father of microscopy and is recognized for his work on the improvements of the microscope.
• Howard Ricketts discovered microorganisms whose range lies between bacteria and viruses called rickettsiae and his work significantly impacted medical technology.
• Hans Fischer worked out the structure of hemoglobin and his work significantly impacted medical technology.
• Agostino Bassi produced disease in worms by injection of organic material and his work marked the beginning of bacteriology.
• Robert Koch presented the first pictures of bacilli (anthrax), and later tubercle bacilli and his work significantly impacted medical technology.
• James Westgard introduced the Westgard Rules for quality control in the clinical laboratory and his work significantly impacted medical technology.
• Karl Landsteiner distinguished blood groups through the development of the ABO blood group system and his work significantly impacted medical technology.
• Kary Mullis developed the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and his work significantly impacted medical technology.
• The Hospital de San Jose was founded in Cavite in 1611.
• The adaptation of computers in medical researches led to the development of tomography and magnetic resonance (MRI).
• The state legislature of Pennsylvania enacted a law requiring all hospitals and institutions to have fully-equipped laboratories and to employ a full-time laboratory technician in 1920.