RA 7170

ORGAN DONATION ACT OF 1991

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-JANUARY 7, 1992 

-CORAZON C. AQUINO 

- 19 

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE LEGACY OR DONATION OF ALL OR PART OF A HUMAN BODY AFTER DEATH FOR SPECIFIED PURPOSES 

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ORGAN DONATION ACT OF 1991

Facility licensed, accredited or approved under the law for storage of human bodies or parts thereof

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Organ Bank Storage Facility

Deceased individual, and includes a still-born infant or fetus

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DECEDENT

Individual who makes a legacy of all or part of his body

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TESTATOR

Individual authorized under this act to donate all or part of the body of a decedent

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DONOR

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

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HOSPITAL

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

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PART

Individual, corporation, estate, trust, partnership, assoc., the gov’t, or any of its subdividisions, agencies or instrumentalities, including government-owned or –controlled corporations; or any other legal entitiy

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PERSON

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

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PHYSICIAN/SURGEON