Schools of Midwifery.
Section 15
SEC. 15. Schools of Midwifery.—To be recognized as a duly accredited and legally constituted institution for midwifery training as provided for in this Act, a school of midwifery must have a permit from the Department of Education, and be associated with, as owner or part owner, or has control of, a hospital with a least fifty beds for maternity cases, duly authorized to operate as such hospital by the Department of Health: Provided, That midwifery schools associated with, or has control of, a hospital whose bed capacity for maternity cases is over thirty but less than fifty beds may be authorized to operate if it can show that it is affiliated preferably with government hospital possessing the qualifications provided in this Act. No school of midwifery shall be authorized to operate whose hospital has less than thirty beds for maternity cases. Such school must have a minimum ratio of trained resident staff members to maternity beds of 1:10 and a ratio of 1:12 of teaching staff members to students. Before allowing a student to graduate, the school must satisfactorily show to the Department of Education that he or she has attended eighteen months of the course in midwifery and that during his or her training he or she has attended personally, under the authority of the staff members, at least twenty deliveries in the hospital or hospitals and at least five deliveries in its domiciliary service.