JAIME S.

BERNADAS, MD, MGM, CESO III

Department of Health Central Visayas CHD

MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

This Memorandum of Agreement is made and entered into by and between the
following:
Director IV

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CENTRAL VISAYAS – CENTER FOR

HEALTH DEVELOPMENT, a national government agency of the
Republic of the Philippines with office address at Osmeña Boulevard,
Cebu City, herein represented by DR. JAIME S. BERNADAS,
SOPHIA M. MANCAO, MD, DPSP, RN, MAN

Regional Director, hereinafter referred to as the FIRST PARTY.

Department of Health Central Visayas CHD

-and-

CITY GOVERNMENT OF NAGA, CEBU, a Local Government Unit

Assistant Regional Director

duly existing in accordance with the laws of the Republic of the

Philippines with address at Barangay East Poblacion, City of Naga,
Cebu, herein represented by HON. VALDEMAR M. CHIONG in his
capacity as City Mayor, duly authorized per S.P. Resolution No.
_________, hereinafter referred to as the SECOND PARTY.

WITNESSETH
CAMILLE F. PEÑALOSA, MD, MPM

WHEREAS, pursuant to Republic Act No. 7719 or the National Blood Services
Act of 1994, it is thereby declared a policy of the State to provide for adequate, safe,
affordable, and equitable distribution of supply of blood and blood products;
City Health Officer
City of Naga, Cebu

WHEREAS, the said Act likewise provides the following essential purposes: (1) to
promote and encourage voluntary blood donation by the citizenry and to instill public
consciousness of the principle that blood donation is a humanitarian act; (2) to inform
the public of the need for voluntary blood donation to curb the hazards caused by the
commercial sale of blood; (3) to lay down the legal principle that the provision of blood
for transfusion is a professional medical service and not for a sale of a commodity; (4) to
mandate the Department of Health to establish and organize a National Blood
Transfusion Service Network in order to rationalize and improve the provision of
adequate and safe supply of blood; and (5) to provide for adequate assistance to
institutions promoting voluntary blood donation and providing non-profit blood services,
either through a system of reimbursement for costs from patients, or donations from
governmental and non-governmental entities;
HON. VALDEMAR M. CHIONG

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Implementing Rules and Regulations of R.A. No.

7719, in relation to Administrative Order No. 2005-02 amending Administrative Order
City of Naga, Cebu

No. 9 s. 1995, the National Council of Blood Services shall be the governing body of the
Philippine National Blood Services composed collectively by the blood centers of the
Department of Health, Philippine Red Cross and selected Local Government Units
City Mayor

wherein the functions of the Blood Center is the collection, testing, storage, issuance,
transport and distribution of whole blood and blood components to blood service
facilities and end-user hospitals under its network;

WHEREAS, the goals of the strategic plan for 2016-2022 of the National
Voluntary Blood Services Program are the following: (1) Attainment of 100% voluntary
non-remunerated blood donation nationwide by 2020; (2) Institutionalized Blood Center
Model; (3) An adequate and sustainable financing for National Voluntary Blood Services
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 Program and Operation of BSF; (4) A quality management system for the NVBSP and
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Blood Service Facilities; (5) Robust, operational and universally accessible Information
Management System; and (6) Rational use of blood/blood products in all transfusing
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healthcare facilities;

WHEREAS, the FIRST PARTY is the designated Lead Blood Center in Metro
Cebu under the Philippine National Blood Services duly authorized to collect, process,
test and distribute quality blood products to its network of blood service facilities;

WHEREAS, the SECOND PARTY is the implementing unit of all DOH programs
Director IV

which includes the National Voluntary Blood Services Program and it is a good source of
safe human blood through voluntary blood donation;

NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the foregoing premises and for
the terms and conditions herein stipulated, the Parties hereto mutually agree and
covenant as follows:
SOPHIA M. MANCAO, MD, DPSP, RN, MAN

Department of Health Central Visayas CHD

I. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

a. The FIRST PARTY (DOH) shall:

Assistant Regional Director

1. Conduct a Blood Donor Recruit Orientation Activity among the Rural

Health Unit Staff to include the Barangay Captains and Officials,
Barangay Health Workers and residents of the locality, as identified, at
least one (1) month prior to the scheduled Mobile Blood Donation
Activity;
2. Perform quarterly Mobile Blood Donation Activity at the time and place
as may be agreed upon with the SECOND PARTY;
3. Take charge in the handling, processing, and storing of the blood units
collected from the donors of the Mobile Blood Donation Activity;
4. Perform testing for the five Transfusion Transmissible Infectious
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Disease: HIV 1 and 2, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Syphilis, and Malaria;

5. Distribute and supply blood units to the hospitals within the network, per
identified needs;
6. Provide feedback to the SECOND PARTY on the blood units with
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City of Naga, Cebu

confirmed results of testing from TTI-NRL for further management and

follow-up, taking into consideration the Data Privacy Act, Health Privacy
Code, and other pertinent rules on confidentiality;
7. Conduct post-donation counselling to all reactive donors in coordination
with the Municipal Health Office;
8. Charge and collect service fees for whole blood and blood components,
in accordance with DOH Department Circular No. 2018-0348 1, citing
Administrative Order No. 2015-00452. However, 10% of the total blood
HON. VALDEMAR M. CHIONG

collected from the SECOND PARTY by reason of the Mobile Blood

Donation Activities shall be allotted and reserved, as the case may be,
for use of its patient-residents, subject to the referral system established
City of Naga, Cebu

for this purpose, and upon presentment of the referral document signed
by the Health Officer or duly authorized representative duly endorsing
the patient-residents to the FIRST PARTY.
City Mayor

b. The SECOND PARTY (LGU) shall:

1
DOH DC No. 2018-0348, “Reiteration of the No Re-testing Policy of Blood Units and the Set Maximum Allowable Service Fees for Whole
Blood and Blood Components in Blood Service Facilities”, August 3, 2018.
2
AO No. 2015, “New Maximum Allowable Service Fees for Whole Blood and Blood Components in Blood Service Facilities”, dated October 26,
2015.
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JAIME S. BERNADAS, MD, MGM, CESO III

1. Promote and advocate voluntary non-remunerated blood donation

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among LGU staff personnel, hospital staff, patients, relatives, and the
local community;
2. Arrange the schedule and venue for the conduct of the Blood Donation
Recruitment Orientation and Mobile Blood Donation Activities the
MLGUs/BLGUs, in coordination with the FIRST PARTY;
3. Provide a list of pre-listed donors a week before the Blood Donation
Activities to the FIRST PARTY for the latter’s manpower and logistical
preparations;
Director IV

4. Inform the FIRST PARTY of the details in the conduct of the Mobile
Blood Donation. Any changes in the schedule and/or venue should be
expediently made known to the FIRST PARTY before the intended
dates.
5. Provide transportation services, as may be required by the Mobile Blood
SOPHIA M. MANCAO, MD, DPSP, RN, MAN

Donation Activity;
Department of Health Central Visayas CHD

6. Allocate and make available the following resources in furtherance of

the Blood Donation Activity, to wit:
a. Logistical Resources – provision of drinking water,
meals/refreshments of donors and health staff
Assistant Regional Director

b. Manpower Resources – Health personnel, i.e., Medical

Technologists, Nurses from the Nurse Deployment Program
c. Instruments/equipment/materials, i.e., weighing scale, BP
apparatus, sphygmomanometer, tables, chairs, among others.
7. Facilitate in the actual conduct of the Mobile Blood Donation Activities
by capacitating the Rural Health Unit and other health or pertinent
personnel in the conduct of blood donation efforts.
CAMILLE F. PEÑALOSA, MD, MPM

II. Amendments and Effectivity.

a. This MOA shall not be amended nor modified without the consent of the
contracting parties. Any amendments or modifications thereto shall be
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City of Naga, Cebu

reduced into writing, duly signed, and notarized.

b. This MOA shall take effect immediately upon signing hereof and shall
remain in force and in effect until revoked, modified, amended accordingly,
or when its objectives have been duly realized.

III. Authority of Signatories

a. The Parties represent and warrant that all necessary actions, corporate,
internal, and other similar approvals necessary for the execution of this
MOA have been duly obtained.
HON. VALDEMAR M. CHIONG

b. They further warrant that the respective signatories herein are duly
authorized for this purpose.
City of Naga, Cebu

IV. Data Privacy and Confidentiality

City Mayor

a. Each Party acknowledges that it may receive personal, sensitive,

proprietary, and confidential information. Unless permitted otherwise, each
party shall keep confidential the information which it may have known or
acquired by reason of this MOA.

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 b. For this reason, the Parties shall observe and comply with the provisions
of the Data Privacy Act of 2012 and its Implementing Rules and
Regulations in case the undertakings will involve the personal information
or sensitive personal information.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties have hereunto affixed their signature this
______________ in the City of Naga, Cebu.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CENTRAL CITY OF NAGA, CEBU

VISAYAS CENTER FOR HEALTH
DEVELOPMENT

By: By:

JAIME S. BERNADAS, MD, MGM, CESO III HON. VALDEMAR M. CHIONG

Regional Director City Mayor

Signed in the presence of:

SOPHIA M. MANCAO, MD, DPSP, RN, MAN CAMILLE F. PEÑALOSA, MD, MPM
Assistant Regional Director City Health Officer
Department of Health Central Visayas CHD City of Naga, Cebu

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES)

CITY OF ____________)S.S

BEFORE ME, a Notary Public for and in _____________, Philippines, on this

______day of ____________ 2023 personally appeared:

NAME PROOF OF DATE

IDENTIFICATION
JAIME S. BERNADAS, MD,
MGM, CESO III

known to me to be the same person who executed the foregoing instrument and
acknowledged to me that he/she executed and signed the same as his/her free act and
deed as well as that of the entity herein represented.

This instrument, consisting of six (6) pages is signed on each and every page
hereof by the parties and their instrumental witnesses.

WITNESS MY HAND AND NOTARIAL SEAL on the date and place above
written.

Doc. No. _________

Page No. __________
Book No. _________
Series of 2023

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES)

CITY OF ____________ )S.S

BEFORE ME, a Notary Public for and in _____________, Philippines, on this

______day of ____________ 2023 personally appeared:

NAME PROOF OF DATE

IDENTIFICATION

Known to me to be the same person who executed the foregoing instrument and
acknowledged to me that he/she executed and signed the same as his/her free act and
deed as well as that of the entity herein represented.

This instrument, consisting of six (6) pages is signed on each and every page
hereof by the parties and their instrumental witnesses.

WITNESS MY HAND AND NOTARIAL SEAL on the date and place above
written.

Doc. No. _________

Page No. __________
Book No. _________
Series of 2023

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