WEEK 8: R.A. 7170 - ORGAN DONATION ACT OF 1991

R.A. No. 7170

An Act authorizing the legacy or donation of all or part of a human body after death for specified purposes

Kidney

the most common transplanted organ

Organ Donation Act of 1991

updates the “1949 Act” to legalize permissions to use human organs

Way of legacy or will

Under the new legislation, each individual can donate all or any part of his body by:

Therapy

Research

Medical Education

Donations are only valid when made for:

Department of Health

International sharing of organs is recognized but subject to approval by the agency:

18 years of age

Sound mind

In R.A 7170 - Section 3: Peson who may execute legacy, these are the primary qualifications

Testator

an individual who makes a legacy of all or part of his body

Donors

an individual authorized under this Act to donate all or part of the body or decedent

Spouse

Son/Daughter of legal age

Parent

Brother/Sister of legal age

Guardian over the person at that time of his death

People who is legitimate to receive all or part of the decedent’s body for any purposes: (in correct order)

Forensic pathologist

Conducts autopsy on the cadaver of accident, trauma, or other medico-legal cases immediately after pronouncement of death, to determine qualified and healthy human organs for transplantation and/or in furtherance of medical science

Cornea

• Safest organ to donate due to lack of blood vessels connections

• Avascular and Low MHC Class I and absence of MHC Class II

3 signature

The document legacy must be signed by how many people?

Testator

2 witness

In document legacy, who must sign?

Attending Physician

Recipient of the organ

Surgeon

The one who will remove the organ

48 hours

How many hours needed to locate nearest relatives of the decedent at the time of death

Signed statement

Oral statement with 2 witness

A statement to the attending physician

A signed card / document found on the donor

In R.A. 7170 - Section 12: Amendment or Revocation of Legacy or Donation, the testator or donor may amend or revoke the legacy or donation either by:

R.A. 7885

An Act to advance Corneal transplantation in the Philippines, amending for the purpose republic act numbered seven thousand one hundred and seventy (R.A. 7170). otherwise known as the Organ Donation Act of 1991

12 hours after death

Authorized time of removal of the cornea or corneas of the decedent within how many hours?

February 20,1995

Approved date of the law? (organ donation)

Fidel V. Ramos

President who approved the Organ Donation Act?

Organ Bank Storage Facility

a facility licensed, accredited or approved under the law for storage of human bodies or parts thereof.

Decedent

a deceased individual, and includes a still born infant or fetus

Testator

• an individual who makes a legacy of all or part of his body

• it can also be a decedent (if they die / deceased donor)

Donor

an individual authorized under this Act to donate all or part of the body or decedent

Legatee

One who receives the legacy

Donee

• The recipient of the organ

• can also be a relative of the legatee

Hospital

a hospital licensed, accredited or approved under the law, and includes a hospital operated by the government

Part

includes transplantable organs, tissues, eyes, bones, arteries, blood, other fluids and other portions of the human body

Person

an individual, corporation, estate, trust, partnership, association, the Government or any of its subdivisions, agencies or instrumentalities, including government owned or controlled corporations; or nay other legal entity

Physician/Surgeon

licensed or authorized to practice medicine under the laws of the Republic of the Philippines

Immediate Family of the Decedent

• the person enumerated in Section 4(a) of the Act

• according to Bereavement Policy, it defined as “the employees’ spouse, domestic partner, legal guardian, son, daughter, mother, father, sister, brother, grandparents, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, and in-laws”

Death

• the irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory function

• the irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem

Attending Physician

Who is/her primary/family doctor

Consulting Physician

Who is present in the ER department