MANILA- The government has approved the "limited practice" of medicine graduates yet to obtain their license in efforts to control the spread of the new coronavirus disease, Cabinet Secretary Karlo No
MANILA- The government has approved the "limited practice" of medicine graduates yet to obtain their license in efforts to control the spread of the new coronavirus disease, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said Tuesday.
This as hospitals grappled with an increasing number of cases and suspected patients, straining personnel, several of whom have died and many placed under quarantine for COVID-19 exposure. According to Tolentino, the Medical Act of 1959 provides that "medical students who have completed the first four years of medical course, graduates of medicine and registered nurses are allowed to render medical services upon authorization by the Secretary of Health without need of a certificate of registration" in times of epidemics of national emergencies.
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