25/07/2025
❗️❗️Posting for awareness ❗️❗️
Medical certificates in the Philippines hold legal and practical significance.
Article 171 of the RPC punishes a public officer, employee, or notary who, taking advantage of his or her official position, commits falsification in any of the following ways, among others:
-Counterfeiting or imitating any handwriting, signature, or rubric.
-Causing it to appear that persons have participated in any act or proceeding when they did not in fact so participate.
-Attributing to persons statements other than those in fact made by them.
-Making untruthful statements in narration of facts.
-Altering true dates.
-Making any alteration or intercalation in a genuine document which changes its meaning.
Apart from the act of falsification itself, Article 172 also penalizes any person who knowingly uses a falsified or forged document.
Thus, even if someone is not the direct forger of a medical certificate but is merely the end-user—submitting the forged medical certificate to an employer, school, or government office—he or she can still be held criminally liable if it is proven that they had knowledge of the falsification and intended to benefit or mislead by using it.
**Attention, everyone! ** I want to bring to your immediate notice that someone has fraudulently used my name twice on a medical certificate submitted to their company. HR reached out to me because of suspicious signature discrepancies.
**Let me clarify:**
- Both signatures on these certificates are completely unrecognizable and not mine.💩
- The PRC license number listed is not mine. 🤡
- Most critically, I am NOT currently affiliated with Baguio General Hospital.
Please be advised that all medical certificates I issue are either personally handwritten or, if typed, always bear my official personalized seal.
Stay vigilant and ensure verification before accepting any medical documentation falsely attributed to me.
Sample FAKE medcert below.
