BLOOD BANKING LAWS

• diseases which may be transmitted as a result of blood transfusion, including AIDS, Hepatitis-B, Malaria and Syphilis

  Blood Transfusion Transmissible Diseases
• How many section does RA 1517 have

  7 Section
• AN ACT REGULATING THE COLLECTION, PROCESSINGAND SALE OF HUMAN BLOOD, AND THEESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF BLOOD BANKSAND BLOOD PROCESSING LABORATORIES

  Blood banking Law of 1956 or RA 1517
• In order to promote public health, it is declared a nationalpolicy to prevent trafficking in human blood and itsproducts and derivatives

  Section 1 of RA 1517
• means human blood, processed or unprocessed, andincludes its products and derivatives (Section 2 of RA 1517)

  Blood
• includes corporations, partnerships, associationsand organizations (Section 2 of RA 1517)


  Person
• means the actual purchase price of unprocessed bloodand its handling charges, such as those for its collection,processing, storage, transportation, and sale, and reasonableallowance for spoilage. (Section 2 of RA 1517)


  Cost
• Blood banks and processing laboratories shall be operated on a non-profit basis. Blood collecting orprocessing by other blood collectors or processors or byindividual physicians shall also be on a non-profit basis.Blood shall be sold by such banks and laboratories, otherblood collectors or processors, and individual physicians atcost


  Section 4 of RA 1517
• The Secretary of Health is charged with the responsibilityof strictly enforcing this Act, and shall issue such, rules andregulations as may be necessary to carry out itsprovisions, including rules and regulations prescribing,from time to time, the maximum ceilings for handlingcharges of blood, such as charges for its collection,processing, storage, transportation, and sale, and areasonable allowance for spoilage, which shall beconsidered as part of the cost of blood


  Section 5 of RA 1517
• Any person who violates any provision of this Act or of therules and regulations issued thereunder shall be punishedby imprisonment for not less than one month and not morethan one year or by a fine of not less than one hundredpesos and not more than one thousand pesos or by bothsuch fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the courtS


  Section 6 of RA 1517
• What are the Service Capability

  1. BLOOD STATION (BS)
  2. BLOOD COLLECTION UNIT (BCU)
  3. BCU/BS
  4. BLOOD BANK (BB)
  5. BLOOD CENTER (BC)
• All services stipulated under

  BCU & BS
• “World Blood Donor Day”

  o Be there for someone else. Give blood. Share life

  June 14
• All blood banks/centers shall operate on a non-profit basis: Provided that they may collect service fees not greater than the maximum prescribed by the Department which shall be limited to the necessary expenses entailed in collecting and processing of blood. Blood shall be collected from healthy voluntary donors only


  Non-profit Operation
• Upon complaint of any person and after due notice and hearing, any blood bank/center which shall collect charges and fees greater than the maximum prescribed by the Department shall have its license 


  suspended or revoked by the Secretary of DOH
• Any person or persons who shall be responsible for the above violation shall suffer the penalty of imprisonment of

  not less than one (1) month nor more than six (6) months, or a fine of not less than Five thousand pesos (P5,000) nor more than Fifty thousand pesos (P50,000), or both at the discretion of the competent court
• Any person who shall establish and operate a blood bank without securing any license to operate from the Department or who fails to comply with the standards prescribed by the Department referred to in Section 9 hereof shall suffer the penalty of imprisonment of not less than twelve (12) years and one (1) day nor more than twenty (20) years or a fine of not less than Fifty thousand pesos (P50.000) nor more than Five hundred thousand pesos (P500,000), or both at the discretion of the competent court
• The head of the blood bank and the necessary trained personnel under the head’s direct supervision found responsible for dispensing, transfusing and failing to dispose, within forty-eight (48) hours, blood which have been proven contaminated with blood transfusion transmissible diseases shall be imprisoned for ten (10) years. This is without prejudice to the filing of criminal charges under the Revised Penal Code
• At what age is not allowed to donate blood.

  Below 18 years old
• Provides (Professional Education):

  o Seminars on quality assurance in blood bank. o Training course on quality management in blood transfusion services
• Blood Station (BS)

  1. Advocacy and promotion of voluntary blood donation and healthy lifestyle.
  2. Provision of whole blood and packed red cells.
  3. Storage, issuance, transport and distribution of whole blood and packed red cells.
  4. Compatibility testing of red cell units, if hospital based.
  5. Offers limited services.
• B. Blood Collection Unit (BCU)

  1. Advocacy and promotion of voluntary blood donation and healthy lifestyle.
  2. Recruitment, retention, and care of voluntary blood donors.
  3. Screening and selection of voluntary blood donors.
  4. Conduct health education and counselling services.
  5. Collection of blood (mobile or facility-based) from qualified voluntary blood donors.
  6. Transport of blood to BC for testing and processing.
  7. Compatibility testing of red cell units, if hospital based.
• Blood Bank (BB)

  1. Advocacy and promotion of voluntary blood donation and healthy life. (tertiary hospital)
  2. 2. Storage and issuance of whole blood and blood components obtained from a BC.
  3. 3. The following services shall also be provided: a) Compatibility testing of red cell units b) Direct Coomb’s test c) Red cell antibody screening d) Investigation of transfusion reactions e) Assist the Hospital Blood Transfusion Committee (HBTC) in the conduct of post-transfusion surveillance (hemovigilance)
• Blood Center (BC)

  1. Advocacy and promotion of voluntary blood donation and healthy lifestyle.
  2. Recruitment, retention, and care of voluntary blood donors.
  3. Collection of blood (mobile or facility-based) from qualified voluntary blood donors.
  4. Conduct health education and counselling.
  5. Testing of units of blood for transfusion-transmitted infections (TTIs).
  6. Processing and provision of blood components.
  7. Storage, issuance, transport and distribution of units of whole blood and
• 1. Public Education – PNRC, PBCC, other government agencies, LGUs (barangays), non-governmental organizations, all medical organizations, all public and private hospitals, all health and health-related institutions, print and broadcast media
  2. Promotion in Schools – DOH
  3. Professional Education – PBCC, PSHBT, PSP, PMA, PAMET, PNA
  4. Establishment of Blood Services Network
  5. Walking Blood Donors
• Provides (Professional Education):

  o Seminars on quality assurance in blood bank.

  o Training course on quality management in blood transfusion services