CHED Memorandum

Philippine Star
May 7, 2008

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has prohibited students in medical-related courses from using cellular phones, cameras and video cameras while attending clinical practices, in the aftermath of the Cebu rectal surgery scandal.

In a memorandum, CHED acting chairman Romulo Neri “admonished” all CHED regional directors and heads of private and public colleges and universities offering health-related courses to advise their students to “refrain from using” such devices while undertaking practicum or clinical classes.

A copy of the memorandum, dated April 24, was sent to the Department of Health (DOH).
In another development, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III called the attention of Multiply, a social networking website, on photographs of a pap smear procedure uploaded on the site.
“It has come to our attention that videos/images of medical procedures are being posted on your website without the consent of the patient. We bring to your attention a specific posting of one of your users which publicized the pap smear done by several nursing students which appear to be unknown to the patients,” Duque said in his letter addressed to the president of Multiply.com.
The STAR tried to access the link to the account of one Sally Mercado of Batangas but it was no longer available.