Visayan Daily Star
NEGROS ISLAND, Ph. — The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill that aims to institutionalize the pre-hospital emergency medical care system in the country, a press release from Congress said. House Bill 5928 seeks the creation of the National Pre-hospital Care Council, which will develop and institutionalize a pre-hospital emergency medical service system at the national and local levels.
Pre-hospital emergency care, as defined under the bill, include independent delivery of pre-hospital emergency medical services by appropriately trained and certified Emergency Medical Technicians, usually in a mobile or community setting.The NPCC is aimed to establish a national standard for the provision of pre-hospital emergency services by duly certified/registered pre-hospital care professionals.It is also envisioned to supervise, control and regulate the practice of pre-hospital care professionals as well as to provide program standardization for the training of pre-hospital care professionals.
Acts that are prohibited under the bill include making a telephone call to an emergency telephone number with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any person who answers the telephone and giving a false report of a medical emergency or gives false information in connection with a medical emergency, among others.
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