Medtech Laws

• Code of Ethics of the Medical Technology Profession

  • Accept the responsibilities inherent to being a professional
  • Uphold the dignity and respect of my profession and conduct myself a reputation of reliability, honesty, and integrity
  • Perform my task with full confidence, reliability and accuracy
  • Treat any information I acquired about individuals in the course of my work as strictly confidential
  • Commit myself to continuously improve my professional skills and knowledge
  • Share my knowledge and expertise to my colleagues
  • Contribute to the advancement of the professional organization and other allied health organizations
  • Act in a spirit of fairness to all and a spirit of brotherhood to other members of the profession
  • Restrict my praises, criticisms, views, opinions within constructive limits
  • Accept employment from more than one employer only when there is no conflict of interest
  • Be dedicated to the use of Clinical laboratory science to promote life and benefit mankind
  • Uphold the law and shall not engage in illegal work
  • Report any violation of the above principles of professional conduct to the authorized agency and the ethics committee of the organization
• To these principles, I hereby subscribe and pledge to conduct myself at all times in a manner befitting the dignity of my profession
• Ako, si ______________________________________________________________________,


  ng _____________________________________________________________________________________
• ay taimtim na nanunumpa na itataguyod ko at ipagtatanggol ang Saligang Batas ng Pilipinas, na ako ay tunay na mananalig at tatalima rito; na susundin ko ang mga batas, mga utos na legal, at mga atas na ipinahayag ng mga sadyang itinakdang may kapangyarihan ng Republika ng Pilipinas; at kusa kong babalikatin ang pananagutang ito, na walang ano mang pasubali o hangaring umiwas
• Taimtim pa rin akong manunumpa na sa lahat ng panahon at pook na kinaroroonan ay mahigpit akong manghahawakan sa mga etikal at tuntuning propesyonal ng mga ____________________________ sa Pilipinas, at marapat kong gagampanan ng buong husay sa abot ng aking makakaya ang mga tungkulin at pananagutang iniatang sa isang itinakdang ________________________
• Kasihan Nawa ako ng Diyos
• God: 'By calling us to the vocation of a medical technologists, has placed upon us the obligation of being a constant help in the scientific care of the sick'
• Responsibilities of medical technologists

  1. Increase knowledge of how to search for underlying causes of sickness and disease

  2. Recognize evidence of physical changes

  3. Make important chemical analyses

  4. Conduct other valuable tests helpful in caring for the sick
• Medical technologists share with those who directly care for the sick


  Thus we may be of constantly working through the eternal physician, Christ our Lord
• God: 'Grant us by thy divine light a deep insight into the serious responsibilities of our task'
• God: 'By thy divine wisdom, awaken in us a growing zeal and determination to increase our knowledge'
• God: 'By thy divine love, permit us in this way to share with those who directly care for the sick'
• O Lord: 'Allow us to express our thanksgiving for the wonderful gifts of wisdom, perseverance and dedication that you have implanted in us.'
• Guide us in our deliberation and discussion


  1. Welcome suggestions and criticisms, good or bad

  2. Listen

  3. Understand

  4. Support

  5. Respect one another
• Guide us to move in one direction


  For a greater service to others through the Medical Technology Profession
• : 'This we ask through Christ. AMEN.'
• Criminal law


  A branch of public law concerned with acts or omissions, which are primarily wrongs against the State
• A criminal case is denominated "People of the Philippines vs. XXX"
• Penal laws


  Acts of the Legislature prohibiting certain acts or omissions and establishing penalties for their violations
• Statute is penal


  • The law defines an act or omission as criminal
  • It prescribes a penalty therefore
  • It must be an act of the Legislature
• R.A. 9346 (Act Prohibiting the Imposition of Death Penalty) provides for the prohibition on death penalty and repeal of R.A. 8177 and R.A. 7659
• Mala in Se


  A crime or an act that is inherently immoral, such as murder, arson, or rape
• Mala Prohibita


  An act that is considered a crime because it is prohibited by statute, although the act itself is not necessarily immoral
• R.A. 6425 is "The Dangerous Drugs Act of 1972"
• R.A. 9165 is "The Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002"
• R.A. 9165 is a special penal law, a mala prohibita
• Violation of the drug law is malum prohibitum; mere commission of prohibited acts constitutes the offense and suffices to charge and convict an individual regardless of criminal intent
• Y presented for customs inspection the bag with a tag bearing her name containing shabu. She is presumed the owner thereof. Being malum prohibitum, the intent, motive, or knowledge of the accused need not be shown. The crime is complete when it is shown that a brings drugs into the country without legal authority.
• Unlawful Acts and Penalties under RA 9165


  1. Importation of Dangerous Drugs and/or Controlled Precursors and Essential Chemicals

  2. Sale, Trading, Administration, Dispensation, Delivery, Distribution and Transportation of Dangerous Drugs and/or Controlled Precursors and Essential Chemicals

  3. Maintenance of a Den, Dive or Resort

  4. Employees and Visitors of a Den, Dive or Resort

  5. Manufacture of Dangerous Drugs and/or Controlled Precursors and Essential Chemicals

  6. Illegal Chemical Diversion of Controlled Precursors and Essential Chemicals

  7. Possession of Dangerous Drugs

  8. Possession of Equipment, Instrument, Apparatus and Other Paraphernalia for Dangerous Drugs
• Elements of illegal sale of drugs under Section 5, Article II, R.A. 9165


  • The identity of the buyer and seller, object, and consideration
  • The delivery of the thing sold and the payment therefor
• The offense of illegal sale requires merely the consummation of the selling transaction which happens the moment the buyer receives the drug from the seller
• Elements to establish maintenance of a drug den

  • The place is a den
  • The accused maintains the said place
• Elements of illegal possession of dangerous drugs


  • The accused in possession of an item or object identified to be a prohibited drug
  • Such possession is not authorized by law
  • The accused freely and consciously possess the said drugs
• When the seller is apprehended possessing drugs equal to that sold by him, it is illegal sale only; possession is absorbed by the sale. But if the quantity possessed is greater than that sold, he is also liable for illegal possession for the excess.
• Quantities of dangerous drugs and corresponding penalties under Section 11


  • 10 grams or more of opium
  • 10 grams or more of morphine
  • 10 grams or more of heroin
  • 10 grams or more of cocaine or cocaine hydrochloride
  • 50 grams or more of methamphetamine hydrochloride or "shabu"
  • 10 grams or more of marijuana resin or marijuana resin oil
  • 500 grams or more of marijuana
  • 10 grams or more of other dangerous drugs
• The requirement of testing is mandatory for prosecutions under Section 12
• Elements of illegal possession of equipment, instrument, apparatus and other paraphernalia for dangerous drugs under Section 12 of RA No. 9165


  • Possession or control by the accused of any equipment, apparatus or other paraphernalia fit or intended for smoking, consuming, administering, injecting, ingesting, or introducing any dangerous drug into the body
  • Such possession is not authorized by law
• Possession or introducing any dangerous drug into the body shall be prima facie evidence that the possessor has smoked, consumed, administered to himself, injected, ingested or used a dangerous drug, and to have violated Section 15 on use
• Elements of illegal possession of equipment, instrument, apparatus and other paraphernalia for dangerous drugs under Section 12 of RA No. 9165

  1. Possession or control by the accused of any equipment, apparatus or other paraphernalia fit or intended for smoking, consuming, administering, injecting, ingesting, or introducing any dangerous drug into the body

  2. Such possession is not authorized by law
• In the present case, there is no evidence showing that the aluminum foil, tube, and lighters found in the petitioner's house were fit or intended for introducing any dangerous drug into the body. The prosecution did not bother to show that there were traces of shabu on any of these alleged drug paraphernalia. In fact, it appears that the only evidence that the prosecution offered to prove this charge is the existence of the seized items by themselves