QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 951)
Republic Act No. 951 amends Republic Act No. 124.
Sections 1 and 2 of Republic Act No. 124 are amended by RA 951.
The duty to provide medical and dental service took effect on July 1, 1947.
Private schools, colleges, or universities with a total enrollment of at least three hundred and one thousand.
They must provide a part-time or full-time physician and a dentist to render medical and dental service to enrolled pupils and students.
The reporting requirement is on the physician and dentist to render reports at the end of every quarter, while the physician and dentist themselves must be placed under the direct supervision of the Bureau of Health.
Reports must be submitted at the end of every quarter: end of September, December, March, and June of each school year.
The reports must be rendered to the Director of Health.
The text specifies that physicians and dentists must give medical and dental service to pupils and students enrolled in the covered private school.
The physician and dentist shall be placed under the direct supervision of the Bureau of Health.
The Bureau of Health must issue rules and regulations relative to the medical and dental service that private schools, colleges, and universities shall provide.
Yes. The title is amended to: “An Act to require certain private schools, colleges and universities in the Philippines to provide medical and dental service for pupils and students.”
The school must provide either a part-time or full-time physician and dentist.
Based on the text, the duty applies to schools with a total enrollment of at least three hundred and one thousand; those below the threshold are not covered by the specific mandate stated.
It takes effect upon its approval on June 20, 1953.