PARAÑAQUE Rep. Gustavo Tambunting yesterday filed a bill seeking to add another employment requirement for public officials and employees, by asking them to submit annually a medical certificate signed by a government physician to prove their fitness to work.
Tambunting’s House Bill (HB) No. 4392, or the proposed Fit-to-Work Act, has been referred to the House committee on civil service and professional regulation.
The measure, first filed by Tambunting’s wife former Rep. Myra Joy Tambunting, said the measure will “ensure that public officials and employees can discharge their duties effectively.”
“This measure seeks to require public officials and employees to annually submit a medical certificate stating that they are in a state of health wherein they could effectively perform tasks and provide optimal service to the people. This shall penalize non-compliance of the said certificate with an administrative offense,” the bill said.
The bill requires the medical certificate to be issued by a government physician, attesting to the result of a medical examination undergone by a patient.
It said physical examination and laboratory tests may be done in any hospital or a government-accredited diagnostics clinic and annual physical exams sponsored by the government agency or conducted in partnership with its health maintenance organization shall also be allowed.
However, the results of the physical examination and laboratory tests “shall be subjected to evaluation by a government physician who shall issue a medical certificate containing a summary of its findings and a declaration of whether the patient is fit to work or needs further tests.”
It said the certificate has to be submitted every on or before April 30.
