Republic Act
Republic Act No. 10069 - An act declaring may 7 of every year as "Health Workers Day"
Republic Act No. 10068 - An act providing for the development a promotion of organic agriculture in the Philippines and for other purposes
Republic Act No. 10055 - An act providing the framework and support system for the ownership, management, use and commercialization of intellectual property
generated from research and development funded by government and for other purposes.
Republic Act No. 10043 - An act establishing a Malaria, tropical Infectious Disease Research and Treatment Institute in the Municipality of Sibutu province of Tawi-
tawi, integrating thereto the Datu Alawaddin Bandon Hospital, and appropriating funds therefor
Republic Act No. 10028 - An act expanding the promotion of breastfeefing, amending for the purpose Reporblic Act No. 7600, Otherwise known as "An act providing
incentives to all government and private health institutions with rooming-in and breastfeeding practices and for other purposes
Republic Act 10024 - An act regulating the practice of respiratory therapy, creating a professional regulatory board of respiratory therapy, appropriating funds therefor
and for other purposes
Republic Act 10022 - An act amending Republic Act No. 8042 otherwise known as the migrant workers and overseas Filipinos Act of 1995. As amended, further
improving the standard of protection and promotion of the welfare of migrant workers, their families and overseas Filipinos in distress, and for other purposes.
Republic Act 9994 - An act granting additional benefits and privileges to senior citizens. Further amending Republic Act No. 7432, as amended, otherwise known as
"An Act to Maximize the contribution of Senior Citizens to nation builiding, grant benefits and special privileges and for other purposes".
Republic Act 9803 - An act to encourage the donation of food for charitable purposes
Republic Act No. 9793 - An act increasing the bed capacity of Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center in Tacloban City from two hundred fifty (250) to five hundred
(500), upgrading its service and facilities and professional health care, authorizing the increase of its medical personnel and appropriating funds therefor
Republic Act No. 9792 - An act changing the name of the Davao Medical Cneter in Davao City tothe Southern Philippines Medical Center, increasing its bed capacity
from six hundred (600) to one thousand two hundred (1,200), upgrading its service facilities and professional health care, authorizing the increase of its medical
personnel and apprpriating funds therefor
Republic Act No. 9791 - An act amending Republic Act No. 7532, converting the Batangas Regional Hospital to the Batangas Medical Center, further increasing its bed
capacity to five hundred (500) beds
Republic Act No. 9790 - An act converting the Culion Sanitarium in the Municipality of Culion, Province of Palawan into the Culion Sanitarium and Genreal Hospital
and appropriating funds therefor
Republic Act No. 9775 - An act defining and penalizing the crime of child pornography, prescribing penalties therefor and ofor other purposes
Republic Act No. 9710 - An act providing for the Magna Carta of Women
Republic Act No. 9709 - An act establishing a universal newborn hearing screening program for the prevention, early diagnosis and intervention of hearing loss.
Republic Act No. 9502 - An act providing for cheaper and quality medicines, amending for the purpose Republic Act No. 8293 or the Intellectual Property Code,
Republic Act No. 6675 or the Generics Acts of 1988, and Republic Act No. 5921 or the Pharmacy Law, and for other purposes
Republic Act No. 9482 - An Act Providing for the Control and Elimination of Human and Animal Rabies, Prescribing Penalties for Violation Thereof and
Appropriating Funds Therefore
Republic Act No. 9288 - Newborn Screening
An Act Promulgating A Comprehensive Policy and A National System For Ensuring Newborn Screening
Republic Act No. 9257 - Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2003
An Act Granting Additional Benefits and Privileges to Senior Citizens Amending for the Purpose Republic Act No. 7432 Otherwise Known As "An Act To Maximize
the Contribution of Senior Citizens to Nation Building, Grant Benefits and Special Privileges and for other Purposes"
Republic Act No. 9211 - Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003
An Act Regulating the Packaging, Use, Sale Distribution and Advertisements of Tobacco Products and for other Purposes
Republic Act No. 9165 - Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002
An Act Instituting the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, repealing republic act no. 6425, otherwise known as the Dangerous Drugs Act of 1972, as
amended, providing funds therefor and for other purposes
Republic Act No. 8976
Philippine Food Fortification Act of 2000
Republic Act No. 8749 - Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999
An Act Providing For A Comprehensive Air Pollution Control Policy And For Other Purposes
Republic Act No. 8504 - Prevention and Control of 1988
Promulgating Policies And Prescribing Measures For The Prevention And Control Of Hiv/Aids In The Philippines, Instituting A Nationwide HIV/Aids Information
And Educational Program, Establishing A Comprehensive Hiv/Aids
Monitoring System, Strengthening The hilippine National Aids Council, And For Other Purposes
Republic Act No. 8423 - Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act (TAMA of 1997)
An Act creating the PHILIPPINE INSTITUTE OF TRADITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE (PITAHC) to accelerate the development of traditional
and alternative health care in the Philippines, providing for a TRADITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE DEVELOPMENT FUND and for other
purposes
Republic Act No. 8344 - An Act Prohibiting the Demand of Deposits or Advance Payments
An Act Prohibiting The Demand Of Deposits Or Advance Payments For The Confinement Or Treatment Of Patients In Hospitals And Medical Clinics In Certain Cases
Republic Act No. 8203 - Special Law on Counterfeit Drugs
An Act of Prohibiting Counterfeit drugs, Providing Penalties for Violations and Appropriating Funds Thereof
Republic Act No. 7883 - Barangay Health Workers Benefits and Incentives Acts of 1995
An Act Granting Benefits and Incentives to Accredit Barangay Health Workers and for Other Purposes
Republic Act No. 7876 - Senior Citizens Center Act of the Philippines
An Act to Maximize the Contribution of Senior Citizens to Nation Building, Grant Benefits and Special Privileges
Republic Act No. 7875 - National Health Insurance Act of 1995
An Act Instituting A National Health Insurance Program For All Filipinos And Establishing The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation For The Purpose
Republic Act No. 7719 - National Blood Services Act of 1994
An Act Promoting Voluntary Blood Donation, Providing For An Adequate Supply Of Safe Blood Regulating Blood Banks And Providing Penal Ties For Violation
Thereof
Republic Act No. 7432 - Senior Citizen Act of 1992
An Act to Maximize the Contribution of Senior Citizens to Nation Building, Grant Benefits and Special Privileges
Republic Act No. 7394
The Consumer Act Of The Philippines
Republic Act No. 7305 - Magna Carta of Public Health Workers
Magna Carta of Public Health Workers
Republic Act No. 7277 - An act providing for the rehabilitation, self-development and self-reliance of disabled person and thier integration into the mainstream of
society and for other purposes.
Republic Act No. 7183 - An Act Regulating the Sale, Manufacture, Distribution and Use of Firecrackers and Other Pyrotechnic Devices
Amendment to RA 7170 - Organ Donation Act of 1991
An Act To Advance Corneal Transplantation In The Philippines, Amending For The Purpose Republic Act Numbered Seven Thousand One Hundred And Seventy
(R.A. N0. 7170) Otherwise Known As The Organ Donation Act Of 1991
Republic Act No. 6675 - Generics Act of 1988
An Act to Promote, Require and Ensure the Production Of An Adequate Supply, Distribution, Use And Acceptance Of Drugs
And Medicines Identified By Their Generic Names
Republic Act No. 6425 - Dangerous Drugs Act of 1972
This Act shall be known and cited as "The Dangerous
Drugs Act of 1972."
Republic Act No. 5921
An Act Regulating The Practice Of Pharmacy And Settings Standards Of Pharmaceutical Education In The Philippines And Other Purposes
Republic Act No. 4688 - An Act Regulating the Operation and Maintenance of Clinical Laboratories and Requiring the Registration of the same with the Department of
Health, Providing Penalty for the Violation thereof, and for Other Purposes
Republic Act No. 4226 - Hospital Licensure Act
An Act Requiring the Licensure of all Hospitals in the Philippines and Authorizing the Bureau of Medical Services to Serve as the Licensing Agency
Republic Act No. 1241- An act to amend certain provisions of RA 997 otherwise known as the "Reorganization Act of 1954," approved June 9, 1954, and for other
purposes
Republic Act No. 997 - An Act Creating the Government Survey and Reorganization Commission and Appropriating Funds Therefor
Administrative Order 2010
1. Administrative Order No. 2010-0037 - Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines for Paragonimiasis
2. Administrative Order No. 2010-0036 - The Aquino Health Agenda: Achieving Universal Health Care for All Filipinos
3. Administrative Order No. 2010-0035 - Re-centralization of the Issuances of Permit to Construct (PTC) for All Levels of Hospitals, License to Operate (LTO)
for All New Hospitals and Renewal of LTO for Levels Three (3) and Four (4) Hospitals
4. Administrative Order No. 2010-0034 - Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations Governing Massage Clinics and Sauna Establishments
5. Administrative Order No. 2010-0033 - Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations of PD 856 Code on Sanitation of the Philippines Chapter XXI
"Disposable of Deand Persons"
6. Administrative Order No. 2010-0032 - Guidelines and Mechanisms to Implement the Provisions of Republic Act No. 9994, otherwise known as "The
Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010", on the Sale of Medicines, adn the Sharing of the 20% Senior Citizens' Discount
7. Administrative Order No. 2010-0031 - Adoption of the 2010-2016 Philippine Plan of Action to Control Tuberculosis (PhilPACT) and its Implementing
Structures
8. Administrative Order No. 2010-0030 - Authorized signatories fo Application for Leave of Absence of Officials and Employees of this Department
9. Administrative Order No. 2010-0029 - Policies and Guidelines on the Establishment of Operation Center for Emergencies and Disasters
10. Administrative Order No. 2010-0028 - Policies and Guidelines in the Conduct of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Counseling and Testing in
Community and health Facility Settings.
11. Administrative Order No. 2010-0024 - Requirement of Permit to Construct in the Establishment of Free-Standing Screening Drug Testing Laboratories
Nationwide
12. Administrative Order No. 2010-0023 - Guidelines on Deworming Drug Administration and the Management of Adverse Events Following Deworming
(AEFD)
13. Administrative Order No. 2010-0022 - Policies in the Conduct of Psychological Examinations for Overseas Work Applicants
14. Administrative Order No. 2010-0021 - Sustainable Sanitation as a National Policy and a National Priority Program of the Department of Health
15. Administrative Order No. 2010-0020 - Rules and Regulations Implementing Republic Act (RA) No. 9709 Otherwise Known as the "Universal Newborn
Hearing Screening Act of 2009"
16. Administrative Order No. 2010-0019 - Establishment of a National Program for Sharing of Organs from Deceased Donors
17. Administrative Order No. 2010-0018 - Revised National Policy on Living Non-related Donation and Transplantation and Its Implementing Structure
Amending for the Purpose Administrative Order No. 2008-0004-A
18. Administrative Order No. 2010-0017 - Guidelines in Surveillance and Response to Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI)
19. Administrative Order No. 2010-0016 - Guidelines on the Process Flow of Communication within the Department of Health
20. Administrative Order No. 2010-0015 - Revised Policy on Child Growth Standard
21. Administrative Order No. 2010-0014 - Administration of Life-Saving Drugs and Medicine by Midwives to Rapidly Reduce Maternal and Neonatal Morbidity
and Mortality
22. Administrative Order NO. 2010-0013 - Requiring Graphic Health Information on Tobacco Product Packages, Adopting Measures to Ensure Tobacco Product
Packaging and Labelling Do Not Promote Tobacco By Any Means that are False, Misleading, Deceptive or Likely to Create an Erroneous Impression
23. Administrative Order No. 2010-0012 - Policy Requiring the Temporary Suspension of Acceptance by the Food and Drug Administration of Initial
Applications for Drug Product Registration and Criteria for Refusal of Applications for Renewal of Drug Products with More than One Hundred (100)
Registered Pharmaceutical Formulations
24. Administrative Order No. 2010-0010 - Revised Policy on Micronutrient Supplementation to Support Achievement of 2015 MDG Targets to Reduce
Underfive and Maternal Deaths and Address Micronutrient Needs of Other Population Groups
25. Administrative Order No. 2010-0009 - Guidelines in the Prevention of Disabilities due to Lymphatic Filariasis
26. Administrative Order No. 2010-0008 - Directive Specific to the Change in the Use of the Phrase "No Approve Therapeutic Claim" in All Advertisement,
Promotional and/or Sponsorship Activities or Materials Concerning Food/Dietary Supplements
27. Administrative Order No. 2010-0007 - National Framework for Quality in Health
28. Administrative Order No. 2010-0004 - Further Amendment to Administrative Order No. 177 s.2004 "Amendment to Administrative Order No. 171 s.2004
on the Policies and Guidelines to Implement the Relevant Provisions of Republic Act 9257, Otherwise Known as the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2003"
29. Administrative Order No. 2010-0003 - National Policy on Ambulance Use and Services
30. Administrative Order No. 2010-0002 - Policies and Guidelines pertinent to the Establishment and Operation of Local Blood Councils to Support the
Implementation of the National Voluntary Blood Services Program for Blood Safety and Adequacy, Quality Care and Patient Safety
31. Administrative Order No. 2010-0001 - Policies and Guidelines for the Philippine National Blood Services (PNBS) and the Blood Services Networks (BSN