LIST OF ACCREDITED MEDICAL CLINICS AND THE CONDUCT OF MEDICAL EXAMINATION FOR OVERSEAS WORKERS[]
May we remind you also of the provisions of the Joint Rules with respect to the conduct of medical examinations for overseas workers the violations of which shall be subject to sanctions like suspension or cancellation of the license to recruit and deploy workers overseas:
1) “Medical examination of workers for overseas employment shall be conducted only by hospitals, medical clinics and laboratories duly accredited for this purpose. Agencies shall have their recruits medically examined only by accredited hospitals or medical clinics.”
2) “Medical examination of workers for overseas employment shall be conducted only after the Agency or its Principal shall have interviewed and trade-tested or have decided to accept the worker for an overseas job. The Agency Medical Examination Referral Slip issued to the worker shall state this information.”
3) “The Pre-employment medical examination shall cost not more P120.00 . . . Such cost shall be borne by the applicant except when the same is paid by the Principal as part of its mobilization expenses agreed upon in the recruitment agreement.”
For strict compliance
Adopted: 20 March 1984
Administrator
Re-issued: 18 Feb. 1992
Administrator
[*] See M.C. No. 20, s. 1983 supra on p. 55.