RA 7170 - ORGAN DONATION ACT OF 1991

Question 1

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

Answer 1

RA 7170, Organ Donation Act of 1991

Question 2

T/F: The significance of this law is to protect the rights of both donor and recipient from any unethical or illegal practice such as human trafficking and selling of organs for money

Answer 2

F; Rationale

Question 3

T/F: The rationale of this law is to authorize and regulate the legacy or donation of human body or its parts after death or a specified condition thereby securing the safety of the recipient and providing means for transfer

Answer 3

F; Significance

Question 4

How many sections does RA 7170 have?

Answer 4

19

Question 5

When is RA 7170 approved?

Answer 5

January 7 1992

Question 6

Who is the president that approved of RA 7170?

Answer 6

Corazon C. Aquino

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Organ bank storage facility

Question 8

a deceased individual and includes a still-born infant or fetus.

Answer 8

Decedent

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Donor

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Testator

Question 11

the irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or the irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem.

Answer 11

Death

Question 12

To whom a legacy is bequeathed; heir; recipient of a gift

Answer 12

Legatee or Donee

Question 13

Process of administering an estate

Answer 13

Probate (of the will)

Question 14

How old can someone be to execute a legacy?

Answer 14

At least 18 years of age

Question 15

Order of priority of people who may execute a donation in the absence of actual notice of contrary intentions by the decedent

Answer 15

(1) Spouse
(2) Son or Daughter of legal age;
(3) Either parent;
(4) Brother or sister of legal age
(5) Guardian over the person of the decedent at the time of his death.

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Autopsy

Question 17

May become legatees or donees for medical or dental education, research, advancement of medical or dental science, therapy or transplantation;

Answer 17

Any hospital, physician or surgeon

Question 18

May become legatees or donees for education, research,
advancement of medical or dental science or therapy

Answer 18

Any accredited medical or dental school, colleges or university

Question 19

May become legatees or donees for medical or dental education, research, therapy, or transplantation

Answer 19

Any organ bank storage facility

Question 20

May become a legatee or donee for therapy or transplantation needed by him.

Answer 20

Any specified individual

Question 21

T/F: It is necessary that the organ must be given right away to a person

Answer 21

F; It is NOT necessary that the organ must be given right away to a person, it can be stored first in an organ bank storage facility if there are no legatee or done to receive.

Question 22

T/F: The legacy becomes effective upon the death of the testator without waiting for probate of the will.

Answer 22

T

Question 23

T/F: A legacy of all or part of the human body under Section 3 hereof may also be made in any document other than a will.

Answer 23

T

Question 24

The document, which may be a card or any paper designed to be carried on a person, must be signed by the testator in the presence of who?

Answer 24

Two witnesses who must sign the document in his presence

Question 25

T/F: Delivery of the document of legacy during the testator's lifetime is not necessary to make the legacy valid

Answer 25

T

Question 26

T/F: The legacy may be made to a specified legatee or without specifying a legatee.

Answer 26

T

Question 27

If the legacy is made to a specified legatee who is not available at the time and place of the testator's death, who may accept the legacy as legatee?

Answer 27

the attending physician or surgeon, in the absence of any expressed indication that the testator desired otherwise

Question 28

T/F: The physician who becomes a legatee under this subsection shall not participate in the procedures for removing or transplanting a part or parts of the body of the decedent.

Answer 28

T

Question 29

T/F: A legatee must involve himself in the process of transplantation for ethical reasons.

Answer 29

F; must not be involved

Question 30

In the absence of a designation, or if the designee is not available, who may authorize any surgeon or physician for the purpose?

Answer 30

Legatee or other persons authorized to accept the legacy

Question 31

How long can physicians in charge authorize in a public document the removal of organ in absence any nearest relative?

Answer 31

within forty-eight (48) hours at the time of death

Question 32

In all donations, the death of a person from whose body an organ will be removed after his death for the purpose of transplantation to a living person, shall be diagnosed separately and certified by who?

Answer 32

2 qualified physicians

Question 33

In all donations, the death of a person from whose body an organ will be removed after his death for the purpose of transplantation to a living person, shall be diagnosed separately and certified by who?

Answer 33

2 qualified physicians neither of whom should be ○ A member of the team of medical practitioners who will effect the removal of the organ from the body; nor ○ The physician attending to the receipt of the organ to be removed; nor ○ The head of hospital or the designated officer authorizing the removal of the organ.

Question 34

Only who in a hospital shall remove and/or transplant any organ which is authorized to be removed and/or transplanted

Answer 34

Authorized medical practitionees

Question 35

In order for the public to obtain maximum benefits from this act, these agencies shall undertake a public information program

Answer 35

Department of Health, in cooperation with institutions, such as the National Kidney Institute, civic and non-government health organizations and other health related agencies, involved in the donation and transplantation of human organs

Question 36

An act to advance corneal transplantation in the philippines

Answer 36

RA 7885

Question 37

Who is the president that approved RA 7885

Answer 37

Fidel V. Ramos

Question 38

How many sections does RA 7885 have?

Answer 38

6

Question 39

When was RA 7885 approved?

Answer 39

February 20, 1995

Question 40

Authorization of the removal of the cornea or corneas of the decedent within how many hours after death?

Answer 40

12 hours

Question 41

the removal of corneal tissues shall be performed only by who?

Answer 41

ophthalmic surgeons and ophthalmic technicians trained in the methodology of such procedure and duly certified by the accredited National Association of Ophthalmologists