Lafia: Speaker, Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Danladi Jatau, has pledged the House’s readiness to work in synergy with relevant stakeholders to end quackery and address the challenges facing the health sector in the state. The Speaker gave the assurance while declaring open a Public Hearing organized by the House Standing Committee on Health on the Private Health Activities Bill in Lafia.
According to Voice of Nigeria, the bill is titled ‘A Bill for a Law to Establish Nasarawa State Private Health Institution Management Agency Charged with the responsibility of Regulating Private Health Activities and Training Institutions, Licensing and Supervision of Health Service in the State and for Other Matters Connected Therewith.’ Jatau urged participants to provide relevant inputs to help the House pass a clean bill into law to boost the health status of the state’s people.
He highlighted that if the bill becomes law, it would regulate and train institutions for effective health care service delivery. The spea
ker expressed concern over quackery in the state, which endangers people’s lives. The bill aims to ensure proper monitoring and regulation of private health centers in the state, ensuring compliance with international best standards and guidelines.
Jatau commended Governor Abdullahi Sule for initiating the bill to reposition the health sector for better service delivery. The Chairman of the Committee, Mr. Larry Ven-Bawa, acknowledged participants’ inputs on the bill and promised that the committee would consider them to produce a beneficial bill.
The lawmaker stressed the importance of citizens’ lives and urged individuals with additional contributions to assist the committee in creating a good law to submit their inputs to the secretariat for further legislative action. Dr. Damina John-Ali, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, commended the assembly for their efforts through public hearings and advocated for adequate funding, monitoring, training, operational framework, research, mobilization, li
censing, registration, and quality health services.