RA 9288 and PD 1563

Includes education, blood screening, confirmatory testing, and outcome evaluation

Comprehensive Newborn Screening System

Monitoring newborns with heritable conditions for compliance with medical prescriptions

Follow-up

Facilities providing obstetrical and pediatric services, public or private

Health institutions

Includes physicians, nurses, midwives, and traditional birth attendants

Healthcare practitioner

Condition inherited from biological parents leading to mental retardation or death

Heritable condition

National Institute of Health

NIH

Child from birth to 30 days old

Newborn

Process of blood testing to detect heritable conditions in newborns

Newborn Screening

Facility with screening lab meeting NIH standards for newborn testing

Newborn Screening Center

Central facility overseeing testing protocols, training, and database

Newborn Screening Reference Center

Providing parents with information about newborn screening

Parent education

Locating newborns for confirmatory testing and treatment

Recall

Providing medicine or dietary prescriptions to newborns with heritable conditions

Treatment

Health practitioners must inform parents about newborn screening benefits

Obligation to Inform

Testing newborns within___days of birth, exempting critically ill newborns

3

Parents may refuse testing based on religious beliefs, acknowledging risks, true or false?

true

Programs to educate health personnel on newborn screening benefits and procedures

Continuing Education for Health Personnel

Requirement for health institutions to provide newborn screening

Licensing and Accreditation

Responsible agency for implementing the Newborn Screening Act

DOH

Committee overseeing newborn screening program implementation and quality assurance

Advisory Committee on Newborn Screening

Facilities accredited by DOH for newborn screening tests and services

Newborn Screening Centers

Ensuring good laboratory practices and standards for newborn screening

Quality Assurance

Consolidation of patient data for newborn screening centers

Database

Costs included in benefits package with allocation for various program aspects

Newborn Screening Fees

Under the _________, it is revoking laws inconsistent with the Newborn Screening Act

Repealing Clause

Under ______, provisions unaffected by the invalidity of parts of the Act remain in effect

Separability

Commencement of the Act ______ days after publication in __ newspapers

15, 2

who signed the ra 9288?

gloria macapagal arroyo

The establishment of an Integrated system to control and eradicate mendicancy

Presidential Decree No. 1563

it is the begging or soliciting charity as a means of living

Mendicancy

Person with no visible means of support, using begging as a means of living

Mendicant

Child 8 years and below used in begging or accompanying a habitual vagrant

Exploited Infant or Child

Person convicted of mendicancy two or more times

Habitual Mendicant

Institution or person licensed to care for children for adoption, guardianship, or foster care

Duly Licensed Child Placement Agency or Individual

Includes preventive, habilitative, interceptive, remedial, and rehabilitative services for mendicants

Integrated Developmental Package of Services

Act of arresting and taking into custody individuals found begging

Apprehension

What are the charges for a Mendicant

Fine up to P500.00 or imprisonment up to 2 years upon conviction

What are the charges for a habitual mendicant?

Fine up to P1,000.00 or imprisonment up to 4 years upon conviction

What is the charge for Abetting Mendicancy

Punishable by a fine not exceeding P20.00 for giving alms directly to mendicants

Nationwide educational program on the Mendicancy Law to prevent unlawful fund raising

Information Program

________________ and _________ should be established by local governments for mendicants

socio-economic programs and facilities

The ___________ shall provide the necessary measures in meeting the health needs of mendicants

DOH

The ______________ shall provide the necessary law enforcement and other related services for the implementation of PD 1563

Department of defense

The _______________________________ shall provide an integrated network of appropriate services to exploited infants and children 8 years old and below as well as mendicant minors and adult mendicants and shall coordinate the services related to the implementation of

Department of Social Services and Development

The sum of___________________ is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury that are not otherwise appropriated, in order to support the activities under

two million pesos (P2,000,000)

where and when is mendicancy law of 1978 established?

June 11, 1978, City of manila