HISTORY OF MT IN PH

• Date where the spanish empire established Manila as their Capital

  16th Century
• Year when the first hospital the Spaniards established in

  1565
• It was moved to Manila to cater to military patients

  Hospital Real in Cebu
• In 1578, the Franciscans built it for the poor and lepers 


  San Lazaro Hospital
• 1596 this hospital was founded for the poor spaniards 


  Hospital de San Juan de Dios
• In 1641 this hospital was founded in Cavite


  Hospital de San Jose
• They are the ones who found UST in 1611

  The Dominicans
• Year where the first faculties of pharmacy and medicine was established

  1871
• Journals of science and medicine were also published 


  Boletin de Medicina de Manila (1886), Revista Farmaceutica de Filipinas (1893), Cronicas de Ciencias Medicas (1895)
• started producing and distributing vaccine lymph in 1806 had 122 regular vaccinators (vacunadores) in Manila and other 2 major towns by 1898
• Laboratory Municipal de Manila was established by the spanish authorities in 1887 for laboratory examinations of food,water, and clinical samples although the laboratory was not adequately used in the study of outbreaks
• A Philippine war hero who was employed as a chemical expert in this laboratory and pioneered water testing, forensics, and environmental studies

  Gen. Antonio Luna
• By the end of the 19th century, the Spaniards who were considered to be authorities in medicine, started exploring microbial cause of diseases
• After the fall of manila, the Spanish military hospital was converted into the first reserve hospital in 1898 by Lt. Col. Henry Lipincott, who was a chief surgeon of the Division of the pacific and Eighth Army Corps.
• The First Reserved hospital had a diagnostic lab but was not fully maximized when it first became operational due to its director contracting typhoid fever.
• Richard P. Strong, the successor utilized the laboratory to perform autopsies and to examine blood,feces, and urine along with other laboratory services.
• By 1901, the US governement, through the Philippine Commission, established a Bureau of Government Laboratories under the Philippines Commission Act No. 156
• The Bureau of Governement Laboratories was located in Calle Herran (Pedro Gil), Ermita, Manila had a science library, chemical section, and serum laboratory for the production of vaccines.
• The biology laboratory was designed to address and develop methods in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of human and animal diseases. In the chemical laboratory, food, plant composition, and minerals were investigated. Paul Freer, the bureau's first director, ensured that the biological laboratory would be equipped with adequate supplies and equipment such as incubators, sterilizers, microscopes, microtomes, stains, glassware, and chemicals.
• Main laboratory

  • Composed of two stories
  • Divided into two wings
  • Rooms in biological wing had microscope tables by the windows
• Processes in the rooms

  1. Filtering

  2. Distilling

  3. Heating
• Biological rooms


  • Had a chemical worktable with gas, water, and vacuums
  • Opposite wall had a hood with a flue extended to the attic
• Biological wing

  • Floors had incubators heated by Bunsen burners
  • Floors had refrigerating boxes
• The building was destroyed during World War II
• Presently, the National Institutes of Health of University of the Philippines-Manila occupies the area
• The first clinical lab in the Philippines was established during World War II by the 6th Infantry division of the US Army in Quiricada St., Sta. Cruz Manila.
• THe first clinical lab in the Philippines that was established during world war 2 by the 6th infantry division is now known as

  Manila Public Health Laboratory
• When the US left in June 0f 1945, the laboratory was endorsed to the National Department of Health and was non-operational until it was reopened in October the same year by Dr. Pio de Roda with the helps of then Manila City Health officer Dr. Mariano Icasiano
• After instituting the public health laboratory in Manila, Dr. Pio de Roda along with Dr. Prudencia Sta. Ana, conducted a training program for aspiring laboratory workers. Later on, Dr. Sta Ana was asked to prepare a six-month formal syllabus for the training program with certificate for the trainees upon completion. Dr. Tirso Briones joined the two later on
• The training program ended in 1954 when the Bureau of Private Education approved a four-year course in Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology. In the same year, 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 Hedrick. Soon after, MSH started its medical internship and residency training program which was affiliated with Loma Linda University in California.
• Philippine Union College (PUC) in Baesa, Caloocan City (now Adventist University of the Philippines) absorbed MSH's School of Medical Technology


  1954
• What was left with MSH was the facility for its clinical division
• Dr. Jesse Umali


  The first graduate of the medical technology program
• Dr. Jesse Umali later graduated as a Doctor of Medicine at the Far Eastern University (FEU) and became a successful OB-gynecologist in the US
• University of Santo Tomas initially offered the Medical Technology course as an elective for pharmacy students


  1957
• Medical Technology was recognized as an official program in UST


  1961
• He was a well known bacteriologist who took pain in preserving the first public health laboratory in Manila

  Dr. Alfredo Pio De Roda
• He was the first graduate of the medical technology program of puc in 1956


  Dr. Jesse Umali
• Year when Jonas Salk developed the poliomyelitis vaccine 


  1954
• At the end of the Philippines american war, the civilian board of health established by the Americans was changed into the Bureau Hhealth.