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    The document summarizes the key points of Republic Act 4688 or the Clinical Laboratory Law of 1966, which was the first law established to govern clinical laboratories in the Philippines. The law requires all clinical laboratories to register with the Department of Health and defines the requirements and sanctions for operating clinical laboratories. It also establishes that the Department of Health is responsible for enforcing the law's provisions across the Philippines. The law defines clinical laboratories as any facilities that handle bodily materials from humans or animals for diagnosing disease.

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    The document summarizes the key points of Republic Act 4688 or the Clinical Laboratory Law of 1966, which was the first law established to govern clinical laboratories in the Philippines. The law requires all clinical laboratories to register with the Department of Health and defines the requirements and sanctions for operating clinical laboratories. It also establishes that the Department of Health is responsible for enforcing the law's provisions across the Philippines. The law defines clinical laboratories as any facilities that handle bodily materials from humans or animals for diagnosing disease.

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    Module 4: Clinical Laboratory Laws/ Regulations Governing Clinical Laboratories

    Republic Act 4688 or Clinical Laboratory Law of 1966

    - “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”
    - 8 sections
    - June 18, 1966
    - first law to ever be established to govern our clinical laboratories
    - defines the requirements and sanctions for the operation of clinical laboratories
    - establish who are to enforce this provision in the whole of the Philippines

    Clinical Laboratories

    - any facilities handling bodily fluids, tissues, secretions, excretions, and radioactive materials
    from humans or animals for the diagnosis of disease.

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