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SENATE 
S,No, 1783 
Introduced by Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The Constitution, Article 13, Section 11 and 24 provides that: 
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The State shall adopt and integrated and comprehensive 
approach to health development which shall endeavor to make 
essential goods, health and other social services available to all the 
people at affordable cost. There shall be a priority for the needs of 
the underprivileged, sick, elderly, disabled, women and children, 
The State shall endeavor to provide free medical care to paupers, 
As enshrined in our Constitution, a meaningful health development program requires an 
integrated and comprehensive approach, This means that all our efforts must be coordinated 
towards addressing all health areas that require solutions and are prime for development. In order 
to do this efficiently, we must make all relevant information available to all. By doing so, not 
only do we help prevent unnecessary errors in the diagnosis and treatment of many yet 
unidentified diseases, we will be able to build on past and present efforts towards better health 
services and disease prevention. The development of the Internet provides us with a cheap and 
efficient means through which we can distribute all necessary information that can help our 
health professionals and patients alike in addressing undiagnosed diseases. 
This bill seeks to establish an Undiagnosed Diseases Registry through the Department of 
Health which shall be made available to the public subject to reasonable information restriction 
as provided for in this bill and as further determined by the Secretary of Health. 1 
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IVIfi MIRIAM DEFE\iSOR SA~TIA(O -
I This bill was originaJly filed in the third regnlar session of the 14'" Congress. 


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S. No. 
1783 
Introduced by Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago 
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AN ACT 
TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF AN 
UNDIAGNOSED DISEASES REGISTRY 
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled: 
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SECTION 1. Short Title. - This Act shall be known as the "Undiagnosed Diseases 
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Registry Act." 
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SECTION 2. Definitions. - For purposes ofthis Act the term-
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A. Registry - means the Undiagnosed Diseases Registry established under this Act; 
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and 
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B. ' Secretary - means the Secretary of Health. 
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SECTION 3. Establishment of the Undiagnosed Diseases Registry. - The Secretary shall 
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establish and maintain an undiagnosed diseases registry. 
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SECTION 4. Content of the Registry. - The Secretary shall include in the registry such 
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information respecting undiagnosed diseases as the Secretary deems appropriate for the purpose 
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of facilitating the early recognition, prevention, treatment, cure, and control of such diseases. 
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SECTION 5. Availability of Registry Information. - For the purpose described in Section 
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4, the Secretary may make the information in the registry publicly available, except the Secretary 
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shall not publicly disclose-
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A. individually identifiable information; or 
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B. trade secrets or commercial or financial information obtained from a person and 
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privileged or confidential. 
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SECTION 6. Online Access to Available Information. - The information in the registry 
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shall be made available over the Internet, subject to the limitations provided under Section 5. 
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SECT-ION 7. Continuous Update of Information. - The Secretary shall provide for a 
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system of continuous updating of the information in the registry based on scientific advances in 
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the fields of diagnosis, prevention and treatment relating to such information. 
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SECTION 8. Separability Clause. - If any provision or part hereof, is held invalid or 
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unconstitutional, the remainder of the law or the prQvision not otherwise affected shall remain 
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valid and subsisting. 
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SECTION 9. Repealing Clause. - Any law, presidential decree or issuance, executive 
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order, letter of instruction, administrative order, rule or regulation contrary to or is inconsistent 
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with the provision ofthis Act is hereby repealed, modified, or amended accordingly. 
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SECTION 10. Effectivity Clause. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its 
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publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved, 
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