The Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has decried the high rate of foreign medical
trips by Nigerians.
He, therefore, called for a total
overhaul of the health sector to allow efficiency.
Dogara stated this while speaking
at a public hearing organised by the House Committee on Health on two bills at
the National Assembly in Abuja, on Wednesday.
The two bills under consideration
were a Bill for an Act to Repeal the Health Records Officers (Registration,
etc) Act, CAP. H2 of the Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and Re-Enact
the Health Information Practitioners Council of Nigeria for effective and
efficient Health Information Management, to Regulate the Training, Practice and
Management of Health Information System in Nigeria; and a Bill for an Act to
Amend the Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nigeria Act, CAP 1.112, Laws of
the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, to Provide for the Role of the Chemist, the
Regulation of Practicing Fees by Members of the Institute; and for Other
Related Matters.
“The ultimate aim of these
legislations is to ensure that we have a more efficient service delivery in the
health sector. There is a compelling need for us to overhaul our health sector
in view of the continuous public outcry against our defective health care
delivery.
“The high number of Nigerians who
go on foreign medical trips and the brain drain that we witness among our
professionals in the sector, are indications that our health sector requires a
serious surgical operation,” Dogara said.
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