RA 9288 Flashcards
RA 9288
Newborn Screening Act of 2004
Date of approval:
April 7, 2004
Approved by:
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Number of sections:
19
The National Newborn Screening System shall
ensure that every baby born in the Philippines is offered the opportunity to undergo_____ and thus be spared from heritable conditions that can lead to______ if undetected and untreated.
newborn screening
mental retardation and death
means a newborn screening system that includes, but is not limited to, education of relevant stakeholders; collection and biochemical screening of blood samples taken from newborns; tracking and confirmatory testing to ensure the accuracy of screening results; clinical evaluation and biochemical/medical confirmation of test results; drugs and medical/surgical management and dietary supplementation to address the heritable conditions; and evaluation activities to assess long term outcome, patient compliance and quality assurance.
Comprehensive Newborn Screening System
means the monitoring of a newborn with a heritable condition for the purpose of ensuring that the newborn patient complies fully with the medicine of dietary prescriptions.
Follow-up
mean hospitals, health infirmaries, health centers, lying-in centers or puericulture centers with obstetrical and pediatric services, whether public or private.
Health institutions
means physicians, nurses, midwives, nursing aides and traditional birth attendants.
Healthcare practitioner
means any condition that can result in mental retardation, physical deformity or death if left undetected and untreated and which is usually inherited from the genes of either or both biological parents of the newborn.
Heritable condition
NIH - means the
National Institute of Health
Newborn
means a child from the time of complete delivery to___ days old.
30
means the process of collecting a few drops of blood from the newborn onto an appropriate collection card and performing biochemical testing for determining if the newborn has a heritable condition.
Newborn Screening
means a facility equipped with a newborn screening laboratory that complies with the standards established by the NIH and provides all required laboratory tests and recall/follow-up programs for newborns with heritable conditions.
Newborn Screening Center
means the central facility at the NIH that defines testing and follow-up protocols, maintains an external laboratory proficiency testing program, oversees the national testing database and case registries, assists in training activities in all aspects of the program, oversees content of educational materials and acts as the Secretariat of the Advisory Committee on Newborn Screening.
Newborn Screening Reference Center
means the various means of providing parents or legal guardians information about newborn screening.
Parent education
means a procedure for locating a newborn with a possible heritable condition for purposes of providing the newborn with appropriate laboratory to confirm the diagnosis and, as appropriate, provide treatment.
Recall
means the provision of prompt, appropriate and adequate medicine, medical, and surgical management or dietary prescription to a newborn for purposes of treating or mitigating the adverse health consequences of the heritable condition.
Treatment
The central facility at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that:
Defines testing and follow-up protocols
Maintains an external laboratory proficiency testing program
Oversees the national testing database and case registries
Assists in training activities in all aspects of the program
Oversees content of educational materials
Acts as the Secretariat of the Advisory Committee on Newborn Screening
Newborn Screening Reference Center
To ensure sustained inter-agency collaboration, the _________ is hereby created and made an integral part of the Office of the Secretary of the DOH.
Advisory Committee on Newborn Screening
Advisory Committee on Newborn Screening
The Committee shall
review________ and recommend conditions to be included in the newborn screening panel of disorders;
review and recommend the newborn screening_____ to be charged by Newborn Screening Centers;
review the_____ of the Newborn Screening Reference Center on the____ of the National Screening Centers and recommend corrective measures as deemed necessary.
annually
fee
report
quality assurance
The Committee shall be composed of eight (____) members, including the
Chairman:
Vice Chairperson:
The Committee shall be composed of eight (8) members, including the
Chairman: Secretary of Health
Vice Chairperson: Executive Director of the NIH
Secretary of Health
Executive Director of the NIH
Newborn screening centers
NSRC in NIH,
Visayas:
Mindanao:
Central Visayas:
UP-Manila
WVSUMC, Iloilo City
SPMC, Davao City
Mandaue City, Cebu
Newborn screening centers
Central Luzon:
Southern Luzon:
Northern Luzon:
Angeles City, Pampanga
Tanauan, Batangas
Batac, Ilocos Norte
Equipped to facilitate continuity of care/ long-term follow-up management of patients confirmed with heritable (including rare) conditions
Newborn Screening Continuity Clinics
of Newborn Screening Continuity Clinics
11 across the country
