Pursuant to the Joint Ministry of Health (MOH) Ministry of Labor and Employment (MOLE) Rules and Regulations on the Accreditation of Medical Clinics and the Conduct of Medical Examinations for Overseas Workers and to Memorandum Circular No. 20, Series of 1983, we would like to furnish you with the list of sixty-three (63) duly accredited medical clinics^[*] qualified to conduct medical examinations for overseas workers.  You can avail of the services of any of these accredited clinics in the medical examinations of your recruits.

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


Re-issued: 18 Feb. 1992

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^[*] See M.C. No. 20, s. 1983 supra on p. 55.